Trump ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to hold a vote to dismiss the article of impeachment against Donald Trump passed on a bipartisan vote in the House on Wednesday.
Graham said Sen. Schumer should be focusing on “national healing” instead of engaging in “vengeance and political retaliation” in his first act as majority leader.
“While the Vice President and Senate Republicans rejected unconstitutional actions, you seek to force upon the Senate, what would itself be but one more unconstitutional action in this disgraceful saga—the impeachment trial of a former president,” Graham added.
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He argued that holding the trial for Trump after he leaves office would defy the Constitution. “The Senate’s attempt to disqualify a President from future office who is no longer in office, would be an unconstitutional act of political vengeance, not a righteous constitutional act to protect the Nation by removal of an incumbent president,” he said.
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Earlier this week Graham, who stood up on the Senate floor last Wednesday and declared “enough is enough” and “count me out”, said any republican who supports Donald Trump’s impeachment is damaging the country and the Republican Party.
During an interview on Fox on Sunday Graham called the impeachment “insane at every level,” adding that it would “create further division in the country.”
