As lawmakers were being evacuated out of the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 insurrection, Sen. Lindsey Graham was reportedly having an absolute meltdown, screaming for his life and demanding the the Senate sergeant-at-arms to use guns to shoot the rioters.
A new report by The Washington Post says the antigay senator was a total mess during the deadly siege, yelling at the Senate sergeant-at-arms, “What are you doing?! Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns! USE THEM!!!”
According to the report, Graham also called Ivanka Trump‘s personal cellphone to demand she get her dad to call off the attack and offer suggestions for what he might say to quell the MAGA militia.
“You need to get these people out of here,” Graham reportedly begged Ivanka Trump over the phone. “This thing is going south. This is not good! You’re going to have to tell these people to stand down! STAND DOWN!”
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This new report squares with what Sen. Sherrod Brown said back in January, when he said Graham “screamed” during the insurrection, accusing a Capitol Police officer of not doing “enough” to protect him as the building was being stormed.
“I heard when the 75 senators were confined in a room with about 75 staff people, Lindsey Graham with his mask off started screaming at one of the officers,” Brown recalled to MSNBC’s Ari Melber. “I think it was one of the captains, saying, ‘How come you didn’t protect us? It’s doing your job!’”
“He was screaming at an officer. He had his mask off screaming at this officer from 5 feet away–I was maybe 10 feet on the other side–that the officer, the police, didn’t do enough to protect us.”
WATCH: @SenSherrodBrown reports publicly for the first time that during the attack on the Capitol he saw a maskless Sen. Graham scream at a Capitol police officer for not “doing enough” to protect the Senators pic.twitter.com/LKkfIkmfiH
— The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC 📺 (@TheBeatWithAri) January 12, 2021
When asked for comment on the Washington Post article, a spokesperson for Graham’s office said the story was “nothing new,” pointing to similar statements the antigay senator made in the days following the attack.
At the time, Graham criticized the security failures that took place that day, telling reporters he was “embarrassed” and “disgusted” Trump’s militia was able to breach the building so easily and cause such extensive damage, which included smashing windows and defecating all over the floors.
“Those who made this attack on our government need to be identified and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Graham tweeted on January 6 amidst the attack. “Their actions are repugnant to democracy.”
Those who made this attack on our government need to be identified and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Their actions are repugnant to democracy.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 6, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Heywood Jablowme
Who should play Lindsey in the eventual, inevitable HBO miniseries? I vote for Neil Patrick Harris!
jcool
it would be more fun with leslie jordan
Kangol2
Aidy Bryant or Kate McKinnon!
humble charlie
I agree with jcool. Leslie Jordon WOULD be fantastic!
Robert Bradley
Omg! Omg! YES! Leslie Jordon must play bottom bitch graham cracker
Fname Optional Lname
LOL! Can you imagine having Leslie Jordan play him? That would so appro- po! Oh and he would have to fem it up just for shock value!!! I would watch it again and again and again just for the camp of it all!
Joshooeerr
NPH is too macho. So is Leslie Jordan for that matter. How about Rosie O’Donnell?
A_latin_1
Rue McClanahan would have been perfect if she was still with us.
Fname Optional Lname
and now a moment of silence — whenever a departed Golden Girl is mentioned we as gay men must pause and praise the departed diva!
Mr. Stadnick
Will someone bring Miss Lindsey her smelling salts? If you can’t find them pull the bottle of poppers from her hand bag.
Derek Northcutt
“a spokesperson for Graham’s office said the story was “nothing new…” Yes, sure, but let’s hear it again. We need to be reminded what admirable people like Miss Graham is.
Fahd
His “drama queen” and “whatever keeps me relevant” personality seems contrary to what would be popular in South Carolina. To the extent that elections in South Carolina are free, fair and competitive, I’m surprised potential primary challengers or democrats don’t try to capitalize more on his “episodes”.
Kangol2
He’s a right-wing allegedly (barely) closet case, and SC’s other Senator, Tim Scott, also a confirmed bachelor, isn’t the butchest in that caucus either. They reliably vote for right-wing nonsense while seeming at times to show some semblance of independence, and SC voters buy it. Look at Tim Scott’s “police reform” fakery; if anyone thought he’d really for anything substantial or convince any Senate Republicans to go along I’d have a few nice bridges in Brooklyn to sell to them.
humble charlie
I agree with Squeakie Graham. It’s time to lick eh$$. Oops, I mean kick eh$$.
Mack
Hey Lady Lindsey, this is what you signed up for when you supported Trump so STFU.
leauxbeaux
By all means, twin sistah Leslie Jordan should play him!
Gadfeal
You reap what you sow. After 6 years of abandoning reason and adherence to democratic (small “d”) principles for self-serving political survival, enabling a populist presidential candidate with extreme narcissism and totalitarian bent of a mob boss, the “insurrection” is only one of the direct consequences.
It reminds me of people who refuse to evacuate or prepare for an oncoming storm, then, when their lives are in danger, they complain that the authorities ignored them as they stood on their roof<
Inspector 57
Great analogy! Thanks for posting that!
tomch52
Graham is such a big sissy la la!
BoomerMyles
Lady G is such a qween.
frapachino
Glad that attempted insurrection by BLM and Antifa in the summer of 2020 went down in flames, because of them there will likely be a red wave coming. BTW whatever happened to those Marxist organizations??? They’ve all but disappeared from the conversation. Pity 🙂
NateOcean
What do you mean Graham had to call *Ivanka’s* private number?
After spending the past four years tonguing Trump’s arse, and he didn’t have *Donald’s* private number?
hobo
The only thing missing is her pearls
Ronbo
We need to ask author, Graham Gremore, why he despises actions usually appearing under the female gender umbrella. Fearing violence is just common sense. Appeals for stopping violence seem appropriate.
It’s what the Senator did BEFORE and AFTER the violence that makes him an asshole. Both Grahams seem to intensely dislike women and the truth. Their aganda’s seem similar.