“What I tried to do was state the obvious,” the South Carolina Republican and Trump ally said in an interview with CNBC on Saturday. “That’s what I said, The Raid [former] The home of President Trump, the potential 2024 candidate, better bear fruit here,” he told the agency at a forum in Italy. “If it’s just mismanagement of classified information, we’ve had a standard set when it comes to Hillary Clinton.” Graham, the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that when it comes to Trump, the federal government has thrown away all the rules. , Sen. Lindsey Graham said that when it comes to former President Donald Trump, the federal government has thrown away all the rules. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS He said the attitude creates a case of “‘get him, it doesn’t matter how you get him.’ So I said, if it’s similar to what happened to Clinton and he’s prosecuted, it’s going to be one of the most disruptive events in America.” Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Trump, was investigated by the FBI for having classified documents on an email server but was never prosecuted. Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol as lawmakers were set to sign off on then-President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Security forces clash with Trump supporters after breaching the US Capitol. Tayfun Coskuna /Anadolu Agency Getty Images At a rally Saturday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Trump attacked Democrats, the justice system and the media over the Aug. 8 raid on his Palm Beach estate. “The disgraceful raid and burglary of my Mar-a-Lago home was a travesty of justice that made a mockery of America’s laws, traditions and principles before the entire world,” he told a crowd of supporters. He also reignited the “Crooked Hillary Clinton” moniker from the 2016 campaign that prompted chants of “lock her up” from the crowd. Trump has been in a legal battle with the Justice Department over assigning a “special master” to review the seized documents to separate material deemed protected by attorney-client privilege from boxes of classified information. As part of that case, an updated inventory of items seized at Mar-a-Lago was released last week that showed 54 documents were marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” 31 were marked “CONFIDENTIAL” and another 18 were labeled “TOP SECRET.” Agents also took 48 empty envelopes labeled “CLASSIFIED” banner, while another 42 empty envelopes were labeled “Return to Department of Staff/Military Assistant.” Graham, in an interview last Sunday on Fox News, said the investigations into Trump and Clinton indicate a double standard in how justice is administered. ”And I will say this, if there is an indictment against Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle … there will be riots in the streets,” Graham told host Trey Gowdy. ,
