Lindsey Graham says the Manhattan district attorney has “done more” to get Trump re-elected than “anyone in America” but tells DailyMail.com she doesn’t think calls for protests are the “right approach” .
Sen. Lindsey Graham predicted Saturday that if Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicts former President Donald Trump next week, it will only help his presidential campaign.
“The prosecutor in New York has done more to help Donald Trump get elected president than anyone else in the United States,” Graham said at the Palmetto Family Council Vision ’24 presidential forum on Saturday.
Earlier on Saturday, Trump took to Truth Social and said he expected to be arrested Tuesday on charges related to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
Trump then called for “PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!”, echoing calls he made after falsely telling supporters that the 2020 election had been stolen from him, resulting in the attack on the Capitol on January 6th.
“I don’t think that’s the right approach,” Graham told DailyMail.com after his appearance in North Charleston. ‘I think what you should do is fight this in court of law. He is going to win. This is an overreach on the part of the Manhattan DA.
Sen. Lindsey Graham predicted Saturday that if Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicts former President Donald Trump next week, it will only help his presidential campaign.
“The prosecutor in New York has done more to help Donald Trump get elected president than anyone else in the United States,” Graham (right) said at the Palmetto Family Council Vision ’24 presidential forum on Saturday.
“I think it will help him politically,” the South Carolina Republican reiterated.
When asked if Trump’s calls for demonstrations could lead to political violence similar to that on January 6, Graham mentioned the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
‘People protest after George Floyd, when they think there’s something wrong, okay, you know? People take to the streets when they think they’ve been wronged,” Graham said. “What I would suggest the president do is focus on his legal situation, fight back in the courts, and let everyone in America know that they are doing this because they are afraid of him politically.”
While Graham ran against Trump for the Republican nomination in 2016, he served as the former president’s unofficial surrogate Saturday at the Palmetto Family Council Vision ’24 event.
The event, held at the Charleston Area Convention Center in North Charleston, drew presidential hopefuls Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, and several others flirting with a run, including South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former Gov. from Arkansas Asa Hutchinson.
Organizers said that both Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis were invited to attend but opted out.
South Carolina holds the first presidential primary in the South.
Graham was asked about Trump’s impending impeachment as soon as he took the stage Saturday afternoon and his thoughts on how the former president would react.
“Oh, I think he’s going to be very quiet,” Graham said with a laugh.
