Graham vows to publicly question whistleblowers if Trump is impeached

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) promised to question the whistleblowers publicly if President Trump ends up impeached.

Graham told Fox News on Sunday that if the president is impeached, he intends to have the whistleblowers testify in the Senate if they don't go before the House.

"If the whistleblower's allegations are turned into an impeachment article, it's imperative that the whistle-blower be interviewed in public, under oath and cross-examined. Nobody in America goes to jail or has anything done to them without confronting their accuser," he said.

The South Carolina senator said the whistleblowers need to come forward so the "public can judge their credibility."

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/464571-graham-vows-to-publicly-question-whistleblowers-if-trump-is-impeached

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Witness intimidation?

[Iwasthere]

1. Okay then he gets his millions from NRA and Russians looked into ...

Fair play

[Atticus]

2. That pretty much nails down the (dumber than a) Box o' Rox title for Lindsey. nt

[AZ8theist]

48. Yup. Careful what you wish for, Buttercup....

[Iliyah]

3. STFU.

[BamaRefugee]

4. Granham will also publicly state Republicans do not need to respond to any questioning

[Scarsdale]

5. I wonder if tRump has

threatened to expose the "compromat" he has on these gop traitors, if he gets impeached? It amazes me that a party that had Clinton impeached for a bj, would rush to defend an obvious traitor like tRump. They are making absolute fools of themselves, destroying their own credibility, defending an ass like tRump. It just makes me wonder what it is that we do not know.

[stewrat]

6. The whistlblowers are not all that relevant now..

I mean, they sure are helpful but there the call transcript is direct evidence of a criminal act as well as the public statements he made. Add in the Volcker text messages and it's checkmate.

[DrToast]

17. Yep....the whistleblowers don't even need to testify

[mackdaddy]

7. So someone calls 911 to report a dead body.

The cops come and find someone covered in the victim's blood and standing over the body.

So for Lindseed the crime did not happen unless he gets to grill the person reporting it?


And this fool was a J.A.G. lawyer in the military?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Lindsey should know better (and probably does).

Impeachment isn't a criminal proceeding, it's a job performance review. Lindsey needs to dust off his old constitutional law textbook and re-read the Sixth Amendment:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

The impeachment process actually affords plenty of due process even though it's not a criminal trial, but a whistleblower is protected by a specific statute and his/her public testimony can't be compelled for that reason.

[empedocles]

10. A very good answer. Although, it doesn't have anything to do with what is

concerning Lindsey right now, - his political situation today.

[emmaverybo]

19. Thanks. I was wondering about Graham spouting criminal law when talking about a Senate trial.

[Sancho]

9. Lock up Leningrad Lindsey!

[Mopar151]

11. Weally?

Windsey is going to stomp his widdle foot, and make them? Puh-leeze!

[lettucebe]

12. Apparently they do not understand whistleblower rules

Not sure if "rules" is the right word but I'm sure they have the right to be private -- otherwise, obviously they could not be protected, especially when bringing allegations against some beloved reality star such as the Scrumpster (OMG, hated to write that).

[Captain Zero]

37. right the WB rules are meant to protect a lower level employee from retaliation by a superior

Just making a WB testify in public so the public can decide is a retaliation. It will serve to chill WBs in the future if they know the superiors doing wrong and all of the public will get to identify and scrutinize them personally, rather than just making sure the facts they provide are delivered for consideration outside of the normal reporting channels.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Trump must have some really good dirt on Lindsey.

Trump must have some really good dirt on Lindsey.

[emmaverybo]

20. The Russians do. They have a lot on a lot of influential folk I'd bet. They probably dig deep and

find juicy bits from the subject’s past. Graham has been around a long time...

[Grokenstein]

14. Oh my goodness, he's so scary!!

"I can't testify! Lindsey will yell at me!!" -- No One Ever

[ancianita]

15. He'll speak to the whistleblower's lawyers, and that's as close as he'll get. He's got 2 IG reports

and the whistleblower claim. He's also not cleared for classified intel, so he's not going to blowhard his way into making any whistleblower appear. Period.

[emmaverybo]

21. Thanks for the info,

[Paladin]

16. The dirty little whore. (nt)

[Bob Loblaw]

18. I'm almost as tired of Graham as I am of Trump

[Thekaspervote]

25. Ain't that the truth!

[deancr]

22. Given the threat

posed by armed whack-job trump supporters, not to mention the danger of being epsteined, his threat of public exposure may well have the desired result. Any other whistleblowers will think twice before coming forward. I hope whatever it is they have on Graham gets laid bare for all the world to see.

[George II]

23. No you're not, Lindsey. That would be a violation of the law and subject YOU to impeachment.

[Shrike47]

29. (Senators are not subject to impeachment.)

[George II]

36. Thanks. I see now that only the House or Senate can expel their own members.

[George II]

50. By coincidence, or not, trump just tweeted that Pelosi and Schiff should be impeached....

....I'm a layman, I can be excused for that mistake, he's fucking "president" of the United States!!!! He should know.

[pnwmom]

24. The Senate doesn't run the trial -- Justice Roberts and the House managers do. n/t

[Shrike47]

31. You would be a juror, Lindsey, not a prosecutor. He's a former lawyer? Ha.

[EveHammond13]

26. THIS IS NOT A COURT OF LAW

[tblue37]

27. Absolutely, and an effort to warn off other potential whistleblowers. Also a violation of the

whistleblower protection law.

[bluestarone]

28. Is this a signal threat from russia?

Trying to scare the whistleblowers?

[paleotn]

30. No you're not. Shut the hell up, Scarlett.

[sandensea]

33. And when Cheeto's out, Lindsey will implore with prosecutors: "Where will I go?; what will I do!?"

And, well, you know the rest.

[regnaD kciN]

52. Can we please find some other way to mock LG than by misgendering him...?

To make fun of that tool by suggesting he’s really female is both misogynistic and transphobic. It’s the same as the old jokes about “Mann Coulter,” which thankfully disappeared here years ago.

[sandensea]

53. Point well taken. Edited accordingly.

I must admit, I had never heard of the “Mann Coulter” nickname.

I almost ran into her once.

This was around '06. I was walking my dogs in Santa Monica, and she took a sharp right turn (appropriately enough) just as I was starting to cross. Close call for my dogs, let me tell you.

Her window was down, and I saw her clear as day. Bad posture, hair worn thin by all the bleaching, Adam's apple out to here.

Be that as it may, she's become quite critical of the Rotten Orange lately. I'm sure she'll flip once Biden or Warren become president - but for now, I guess, the more the merrier.

[Doodley]

32. Is that the same weasel who called Trump an "xenophobic bigot" in 2016?

[Lib 4 Life]

34. in other news: goliath vows to best david.

[Thunderbeast]

35. He will face his accusers... The House Proscecutors.

The evidence does not require validation by the whistleblower. The evidence was provided by the White House and now the State Department.

[Turbineguy]

38. Relax dude.

whatever trump is using to blackmail you is probably weak sauce.

[Srkdqltr]

39. If you see a car you think was stolen.

You call the police and tell them where it is. That ends your obligation. The police take it from there and investigate. If it is the stolen car and the thief confesses it does not matter what your motivation was in telling the police.
If it wasn't the car they were looking for, oh well.

So the whistle blower is done at this point. It doesn't matter what his/her/its motivation was or is.

[Linda Ed]

40. Graham made the statement he can't keep up with

counting the money he is receiving since the impeachment inquiry....Makes a person wonder if he is lying like his buddy drumpf..

Last week, Harrison announced that he raised $2.1 million over the summer in his quest to unseat Graham,,,In all, Harrison has hauled in $4 million since February... Harrison is within 7 points of Graham among South Carolina voters, even though more than half of them have never heard of him. The poll also says 58 percent of voters would prefer to vote for someone other than Graham.

A few years ago, the senator was the sort of Republican that attracted respectable support across party lines. He was thoughtful, fair, and bipartisan when it made sense.

Harrison — a Yale graduate who is now a top official at the Democratic National Committee — has the type of network to tap into that few other Democrats in the state could match.

Harrison said, “and it’s probably good to bring some new blood and new ideas, someone who understands the struggles that people are having these days and is focused on addressing them.”
Dinging Graham for “chumming it up with the president” and focusing his ire most recently on the arrest of former Trump aide Roger Stone, Harrison said it is time for the state to start a “new chapter” in Washington. Go Harrison!!! We need to get Ms Lindsey OUT!!!

[Blue Owl]

41. Going the extra mile to lick Donnie's toilet

n/t

[lunasun]

42. He sounds so stern . He could scare off witnesses

[NotHardly]

43. Yup, Trump gets to threaten witnesses without reprecusions, so it stands to reason all the other...

Repugs believe they can as well.
I'm still waiting for the House to actually hold someone accountable for defying subpoenas... waiting.

[dhill926]

44. Time to get the dirt...

on this motherfucker. You know it’s there.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45. Okay Lindsey

Your flip flopping on Trump is un becoming

[DeminPennswoods]

46. The whistleblowers are now irrelevent because

Trump admitted in an official WH document, he did it! Then, in another official WH statement, Trump admitted his staff hid politically damaging transcripts of that and other calls on a super secret server not meant for them!

IOW, Trump has already scored 2 TDs for the other team!

[Major Nikon]

47. ...

[raising2moredems]

51. She thinks she has the golden pussy....

If she was married to a Dem the pukes would be uber-bat shit insane. And to add insult to injury, poster child for chain migration (though plenty of pukes are a close second).

[Initech]

49. Lindsay's head is so far up Trump's ass that he ran into Hannity.

And both of those turds should probably be flushed.

[secondwind]

54. Deep Throat was never outed. Until after his death.

We can’t expose whistleblowers, EVER

[NNadir]

55. The Senator from Russia's vassal state in South Carolina must be drunk.

His boss Putin will swat him,like a fly.

[MFGsunny]

56. Lindsey proves he's also a JAG-a$$. Better to be silent & thought a fool ... you know the rest. n/t

[louis-t]

57. He can be like the judge at the 'trials' after the attempt on Hitler.

Screaming obscenities and demeaning the suspects before they were carted away to be shot.