Trump supporters confront and scream at Sen. Lindsey Graham


 "You traitor," a girl screams on the senator in a single video, as he walks via one of the terminals on the Washington, DC, place airport. "Lindsey Graham,​you’re a traitor to the country."

In the video, the senator at one factor seemed to reply to someone ​with inside the crowd however it is doubtful what he said.

A 2nd video published on YouTube confirmed that protection subsequently escorted him to a stairwell.

"You noticed how we surrounded him," one guy says in that video after the war of words ended. "If we had been virtually violent people, we should have ended him proper there and then. But we didn't, we simply requested him questions."

In any other video, acquired via way of means of a Politico reporter, a girl wearing a QAnon blouse is heard saying, "One day they'll now no longer have the ability to stroll down the street; it's far today."

Asked for touch upon the video, Kevin Bishop, the senator's communications director informed CNN, "We do not talk protection troubles related to Senator Graham."

A Reagan National Airport spokesperson informed CNN there have been no fees associated with the incident.

The backlash directed at Graham become sparked after the Republican senator's complaint of Trump after a violent pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol on Wednesday. The rebellion got here as a joint consultation of Congress had convened to depend Electoral College votes and verify President-go with Joe Biden's victory -- which Trump has protested through again and again making fake claims that the election become stolen from him.

Graham stated at a information convention day after today that the President's accomplishments have been "tarnished through yesterday" and the attack "may be a primary a part of his presidency."

"When it involves accountability, the President wishes to apprehend that his movements have been the problem, now no longer the solution," he added.

He additionally referred to as on Trump to "be given he fell short" with inside the election "and a brand new president may be coming," asking him to "flip down the rhetoric and permit us as a country to heal and flow forward."

Graham did now no longer guide objections raised towards Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes. Both objections failed with inside the Senate and Congress in the long run completed its vote depend to verify Biden's White House win.

"You rubbish human being," a lady is heard yelling with inside the video. "It's going to be like this all the time anyplace you cross for the relaxation of your life."

Graham received a fourth time period in November, defeating a well-funded Democratic challenger in a aggressive reelection that earned country wide attention.

People with inside the video also can be heard screaming at Graham, announcing that he become "a part of the Chinese Communist party," an obvious allusion to baseless QAnon conspiracy theories.

"You do not constitute us anymore," someone is heard yelling.

Another yelled, "You higher experience Gitmo."

 

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