He was also not a fan of Senate Minority Leader and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell’s scathing diatribe against former President Trump after the impeachment trial.
“We need to unite the party,” Sen. Graham said. “Trump-plus is the way back in 2022….We can’t do that without Donald Trump, so he’s ready to hit the trail, and I’m ready to work with him…the Trump movement is alive and well.”
“I think [McConnell’s] speech is an outlier regarding how Republicans feel about all this,” he said. “I felt the impeachment trial was not only unconstitutional. I condemned what happened on January 6th, but the process they used to impeach this president was an affront to rule of law.”
“All I can say is that the most potent force in the Republican Party is President Trump…the president is a handful, and what happened on January 6 was terrible for the country, but he’s not singularly to blame. Democrats have sat on the sidelines and watched the country burn down for a year and a half and not said a damn word, and most Republicans are tired of the hypocrisy,” he said.
