АНУ-ын ерөнхийлөгч Дональд Трамп таалал төгссөн сенатор Линдси Грэмтэй холбоотой улс төрийн үйл явцын талаар байр сууриа илэрхийлжээ.
Даваа гарагт өгсөн ярилцлагадаа Дональд Трамп сенатор Линдси Грэмийг өөрийн үнэнч холбоотон байсан гэж тодорхойлоод, 2021 оны нэгдүгээр сарын 6-ны үйл явдлын дараа түүний хэлсэн үг нь цорын ганц “алдаатай мөч” байсан гэв. Түүний ярьснаар, сенатор Конгрессын танхимд үг хэлснийхээ дараа удалгүй утасдаж, уг мэдэгдлээ буцааж, харамсаж байгаагаа илэрхийлсэн байна. Тухайн үед Линдси Грэм Аризона мужийн сонгуулийн дүнг хүлээн зөвшөөрөх асуудлаарх мэтгэлцээний үеэр АНУ-ын ерөнхийлөгч Жо Байден болон сенатор Камала Харрис нарыг хууль ёсоор сонгогдсон гэж мэдэгдэж байжээ.
Гэвч Трампын энэхүү мэдэгдлийг батлах албан ёсны баримт нотолгоо байхгүй байна. Тухайн үед Конгрессын нэгдсэн хуралдааныг шалгаж байсан АНУ-ын Төлөөлөгчдийн танхимын тусгай хорооны олж авсан утасны бүртгэлд Трамп болон Грэм нарын хооронд тухайн өдөр яриа хэлэлцээ хийгдсэн гэх мэдээлэл байхгүй аж.
Линдси Грэм нь өмнө нь Трампын өрсөлдөгч байсан ч сүүлд түүний хамгийн ойрын дэмжигчдийн нэг болсон юм. 2021 оны нэгдүгээр сарын үйл явдлын дараа тэрээр Трампын дэмжигчдийн зүгээс дарамт шахалт, шүүмжлэлд өртсөнийхөө дараа түүнтэй дахин нэгдэж, улс төрийн хамтын ажиллагаагаа үргэлжлүүлсэн түүхтэй.
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President Donald Trump claimed the late South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham almost immediately apologized for making a public break with him in the hours after a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in 2021.
During a Monday phone interview with Fox & Friends, Trump praised Graham, who died late Saturday, for remaining loyal to him, giving a “99 instead of 100” with the sole exception of “one bad moment” — a viral speech delivered in the Senate chamber while debating whether to reject Arizona’s 2020 electoral votes for Joe Biden.
“Now he had one bad moment, and that was you know on the January 6 thing … then he called me like about 40 minutes later, and he said, ‘Did I really say that? I can’t believe it,’ and he took it back … so I give him a 99 instead of a 100,” Trump said.
The president was referring to remarks Graham had made on the Senate floor after the upper chamber reconvened in the late hours of January 6, 2021, after law enforcement and National Guard soldiers cleared the Capitol complex of a pro-Trump mob who had stormed the building to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s victory.
Graham, who had become a staunch ally of the president despite having run against him four years earlier, became emotional as he recalled how he and Trump “have had a hell of a journey” and called him “a consequential president.”
“But today, the first thing you will see, all I can say is, count me out. Enough is enough,” he said before adding moments later that Biden and then-California senator Kamala Harris had been “lawfully elected.”
Now, with Graham passing, Trump has claimed that the late senator almost immediately called him to walk it back.
“That was his only bad moment. He said, ‘I wish I never said it,’ but about 45 minutes later, he called. He said: ‘I made a big mistake,’” the president claimed.
No groups have stepped forward to support the president’s assertion that Graham called him in the moments after his emotional Senate floor speech. White House phone logs obtained by the House January 6 select committee do not show any contact between Trump and Graham that day.
Both the Senate and House remained in joint session to count electoral votes until nearly 4 a.m. on January 7, 2021.
But Graham’s break with Trump would only last for so long.
Within days, he was back in the fold after being harassed and verbally abused by a group of the president’s supporters as he walked through Washington National Airport for a flight home to South Carolina.
