Trump pardoned over 1,500 people charged with attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, 34 of them from South Carolina.

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.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, affirmed his opinion of Trump pardoning Jan. 6 rioters saying he doesn't like anything that would send the "wrong signal"

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, says the White House pardoning rioters who fought with police while storming the U.S. is “sending the wrong signal.”

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has been criticized for claiming that President Donald Trump made a “mistake” his first week in office. During an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press, Graham told host Kristen Welker that Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 defendants was a “mistake.”

The South Carolina Republican told CNN that he “did not like” how Trump pardoned people who “beat up cops,” and suggested he would be open to curtailing the presidential pardon power.