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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has been one of Donald Trump’s staunch supporters for the past four years. By Christmas Day, they played golf together.
After angry Trump supporters stormed Congress this week, he put his foot down. Several of Donald Trump’s supporters didn’t like it (see video below on the case).
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Graham delivered an impassioned speech as Congress resumed the approval process for Joe Biden as the new president.
Lindsey Graham publicly broke up with Donald Trump after the assault on Congress earlier this week. Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images / AFP / NTB
– Trump and I have had a great trip. I hate that it has to end like this. God, I hate it. All I can say is; don’t count on me anymore. Enough is enough, said Graham, who represents South Carolina.
Also read: Who exactly are the people who broke into Capitol Hill?
Surrounded by Trump supporters
The fact that Graham now turns his back on the outgoing president has obviously fallen on deaf ears for many Trump supporters. When Graham was at Reagan National Airport on Friday, he was surrounded and goaded on by a group who believe Graham has failed them and the nation.
“Traitor. Traitor. Traitor,” several of them yelled at him as the security guards escorted him. One woman called him a liar, while another said, “You work for the people. You work for us, do you hear me? ».
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“One day they won’t be able to walk down the street”
Various videos of the incident abound online. “You saw how we went around him,” said a man in one of the videos after the confrontation ended, writes CNN.
“If we were really violent people, we could kill him right there. But we didn’t, we just asked him questions,” says the man.
In another video, which has been given access to Politico, a woman can be seen saying: “One day they won’t be able to walk down the street. It’s today.” The woman is wearing a QAnon T-shirt that says “I love Trump.”
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Kevin Bishop, communications director for Lindsey Graham, made this comment to CNN in connection with the incident.
– We are not talking about security issues related to Senator Graham.
An airport spokesman told the same television channel that no one had been charged in connection with the incident.
Also read: Party colleagues face Trump, but does that mean goodbye to him?
Qanon Leader: – Came to Washington because Trump asked
It is unclear if the people who harassed Lindsey Graham were among those who participated in the deadly attack on Congress that killed five people, Politico writes. Undoubtedly, so did Qanon leader Jake Angeli, who has been arrested after the rise of Congress. He even called the FBI to tell them that he had participated in the storm.
Angeli, whose full name is Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley, has become one of the icons of the violent uprising. The conspiracy theorist participated in the uprising in his well-known Viking helmet and fur hat, with a bare torso and face paint in the colors of the American flag, writes NTB.
Jake Angeli, in his characteristic Viking helmet and fur hat, inside the congress building during Wednesday’s storm. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP / NTB
He himself called the FBI and confirmed that it was he who appeared in several photos of the uprising, including sitting in the vice president’s chair in the Senate. CNN writes that the police report on Angeli’s arrest is one of the strongest indications that there was a coordinated uprising that took place.
“Chansley said he came as part of a group effort, with other Arizona patriots, after the president asked that all patriots be allowed to come to Washington on January 6,” the police report said.
Angeli is a well-known figure in the Qanon community, of complicity and complicity, and a fervent supporter of Trump.
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Also read: “War is peace,” wrote George Orwell, 70 years before the Trump gang presented their “alternative facts”
Pelosi: Congressional rebels chose “whiteness” over democracy
Democrat Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, participated in an online meeting with voters against the mainly white mob that forcibly entered Congress on Wednesday, NTB writes.
“It has been a revelation for the world to see that there are people in our country, led by the president, who have currently chosen their whiteness to democracy,” he said.
Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite / AP / NTB
Pelosi appears to be working to vote on a new Supreme Court indictment against President Donald Trump on Monday, a move that has wide support among her party colleagues.
She said nothing Saturday on whether a final decision was made, but said Trump’s “participation” and “encouragement” must and will be followed, NTB writes.
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