Republican Senator and Trump ally Lindsey Graham told a police officer who was badly beaten during the Capitol. attack that law enforcement should gunned down by rioting Trump supporters in in headaccording to new book.
“You guys should shot them all in in head”, now former police officer Michael Fanon, says a Republican from South Carolina told him at a meeting in May 2021, four months after deadly attack on Congress.
“We gave you guys weapons and you should used them. I don’t understand why it didn’t happen.”
On January 6, Fanone was an officer in the Metropolitan Police. who came to the rescue of Capitol police during an attack by Trump supporters. He was severely beaten while suffering from a heart attack. attack and traumatic brain injury injury.
He has since retired from the police force, testified before a House committee on January 6, and became a correspondent for CNN. analyst. His book Hold the Line will be published next a week.
Politico reported on the statements of Fanone says we made from Graham. Website also said Fanon, who secretly signed up other prominent Republicans, including Kevin McCarthy, House minority leader and possibly next speaker, who It has also stayed with Trump.
Politico reported that Fanone told McCarthy that attempts to minimize the uprising in the Capitol were “not just outrageous, but shameful.” McCarthy reportedly did not respond.
Rolling Stone published an unusually candid interview last week. in who Fanon, a self-proclaimed lifelong Republican, called McCarthy a “fucking sweet bitch”. McCarthy is not comment.
According to Politico, Fanone told Graham that he “appreciated the enthusiasm” shown by the senator. for shot the rioters, “but noted that the officers rules manager use of deadly force”.
Fanon says meeting with Graham was also present was Harry Dunn, a Capitol police officer. who It has also testified in Congress, as well as Gladys Siknik and Sandra Garza, mother and partner of Brian Siknik, Officer who died after the riot.
Fanon says Graham snapped at Gladys Siknik, telling the mourners mother he would “finish the meeting right now” if she said more negative things about Trump.
Nine deaths, including officer suicides, have been linked to the Capitol. attack. The riots broke out after Trump told his supporters:fight like hell” to undo his defeat to Joe Biden, which he claims without proof was result of election fraud. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, urged Trump supporters to “trial combat”.
January 6 House Committee Testimony Shows Trump Knew Elements of the crowd was armed but ordered them to go on Capitol and tried to go with them.
Representatives for Graham is not comment to Politico. Earlier it was reported that the senator was in favor of use of force against Capitoline rebels on the day itself.
On the same day, Graham appeared to renounce his intimacy with Trump. In a Senate speech hours after the Capitol was cleared, he said, “Count me out”. A few days later, he said he had “never been so humiliated and embarrassed”. for country”.
But like most Republicans, McCarthy literally so, Graham went back to Trump side. Like all but seven Republican senators, Graham voted in favor of acquittal. in Trump second impeachment, for capitol incitement attack.
He recently predicted “riots in streets” if Trump is indicted for keeping secret documents after leaving the White House.
In his recent book The Divider: Trump in White House, 2017-2021, Peter Baker of New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker quotes Graham as calling Trump a “lying bastard” … but “a lot of fun hang out with”.
