Former top DOJ official: Graham warning of ‘riots’ if Trump is prosecuted ‘incredibly irresponsible’
Mary McCord, a former top official at the Department of Justice, knocked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday for comments warning there would be “riots in the streets” if former President Trump is prosecuted for his handling of classified materials found when the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home.
“I think it’s incredibly irresponsible for an elected official to basically make veiled threats of violence, just if law enforcement and the Department of Justice and a grand jury does their job,” McCord said on CNN’s “New Day.”
McCord, who was acting assistant attorney general for national security at the DOJ and is now executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, said Graham’s comments were in line with former President Trump’s wink-and-nod “game plan” of indirectly encouraging supporters toward violence.
“‘People are angry, they may be violent,’ and then what [Trump] knows and what Lindsey Graham also knows … is that people listen to that and people actually mobilize and do things. Jan. 6 was the result of this same kind of tactic by President Trump and his allies,” McCord said.
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“It’s irresponsible, it’s dangerous. It’s a threat to our democracy, and I think he should be ashamed of himself,” McCord said of Graham.
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Former top DOJ official: Graham warning of "riots" if Trump is prosecuted "incredibly irresponsible" https://t.co/redSWEqDJx pic.twitter.com/HMxUNIzUVz
— The Hill (@thehill) August 29, 2022Sen. Lindsey Graham said there will be "riots in the streets" if Trump is prosecuted.
Mary McCord, fmr acting Asst AG for Nat Sec: "It is incredibly irresponsible for an elected official to make veiled threats of violence just if law enforcement and the DOJ" do their jobs. pic.twitter.com/hiReWGwRSB
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) August 29, 2022
For a political leader to forecast possible riots in streets can be a dangerously sell-fulfilling prophecy.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 29, 2022
perhaps consider not threatening mob violence every time there’s the slightest setback then https://t.co/mjeI4WoOxk
— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 29, 2022
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