Now that it is official, some of Trump’s closest congressional allies are escalating their outrage — at the apparent encouragement of the former president — with everything from symbolic handouts of ham sandwiches to calls for protests and threats of retaliatory congressional investigations.
And Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a close Trump ally, facetiously suggested the former president act violently when he is en route to his arraignment.
“On the way to the DA’s office on Tuesday, Trump should smash some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop. He would be released IMMEDIATELY!” he wrote in a subsequent tweet, an apparent reference to claims that the New York prosecutor is soft on crime.