Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a press conference on U.S. Attorney General William Barr's summary of the Mueller report at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 25, 2019. Graham was referring to the Republican Party’s “mistakes” in pursuing an
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., at a press conference Monday morning, offered advice to Democrats thinking about impeaching the president: “Learn from our mistakes.”
As Democrats have speculated about impeaching Donald Trump, Graham’s past statements have come back to haunt him. “Looking back,” said Graham at the press conference, “the public sort of knew what they were getting with Bill Clinton. I think the public sort of knows what they’re getting with Donald Trump.”
But that seems to go beyond Barr’s findings. “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him,” Barr's letter said. Democrats are pursuing the release of the full report, and several congressional committees have opened investigations into possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by Trump.
“Donald Trump got scrutiny like nobody else in the history of the presidency since Nixon probably,” said Graham. He added that Trump came out of the investigation stronger.
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