The GOP senator said Trump "technically" broke the law by firing several inspectors general, but "has the authority to do it."

Senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, criticized on Sunday the president's pardon of about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it could lead to more violence.

Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think was a mistake,’ Lindsey Graham says

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday said President Donald Trump sent “the wrong signal” in pardoning Jan. 6 rioters who violently assaulted police officers.

The republican senator also laid into former President Joe Biden for pardoning "all of his family going out the door."

Jan. 26 Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told NBC he is inclined to vote in favor of all of Trump’s nominees, but wants to “see how the hearing goes,” specifically citing Gabbard’s controversial visit to Syria and her previous call for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

S.C., said congressional Republicans who delay funding for border czar Tom Homan could "own another attack on our country."

Senator Graham said while President Trump had the legal authority to issue the pardons, he thought it was a mistake to pardon people who "beat up a police officer violently.... because it seems to suggest that's an okay thing to do".

Two senior Republican senators urged President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to strip personal security from some former Trump administration officials, one of whom was the target of an alleged Iranian plot.

Trump pardoned about 1,500 people who were charged for their actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That number includes 172 who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers. Graham, however, points out that Trump said he would grant the pardons if he was reelected.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham incited the fury of President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters after describing the president’s decision to pardon more than 1500 Jan. 6 insurrectionists as a “mistake”—with one former prisoner slamming Graham as a “Republican in name only.