Lindsey Graham contradicts Trump by saying January 6 investigators should not go to jail

Exchange offers example of senators’s willingness to publicly disagree with Trump while serving as staunch ally

US senator Lindsey Graham has said officials who investigated Donald Trump supporters’ deadly attack on the US Capitol in 2021 should not be imprisoned – despite what his fellow Republican has argued in advance of his second presidency.

During an interview Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, show host Kristen Welker asked Graham whether he agreed with Trump’s assertion on the program seven days earlier that those involved in the investigation of the January 6 Capitol attack “should go to jail”.

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