The very Republican senators who
voted to acquit Donald Trump for
inciting the insurrection,
were actually scared for their
lives as the violence was taking
place in the capital building.
In fact, Jonathan Swan from axios
has shed more light
on this during a recent episode of
his podcast how it happened.
Let's take a listen.
>> Eventually the senators reached
their destination.
It was a large hearing room,
with rows of long tables covered
in black cloth secured by
a perimeter of armed guards.
>> It was way too crowded for
COVID.
[MUSIC]
>> The Senate Sergeant at Arms had
gotten up on the podium to address
the senators and
he can't get the words out.
He's emotional.
His voice is cracking.
He can't really finish his
sentences and
Senator Lindsey Graham just snaps,
he freaks out and he starts yelling
at the sergeant of arms.
This is ridiculous,
Graham shouts out.
You need to use every resource
in every
weapon to take back the senate.
Get these thugs out of here.
The Democratic Senator Sherrod
Brown yells back at Lindsey Graham.
Shut up, let him speak.
Republican Senator Tim Scott tries
to settle everyone down.
He's a man of deep faith, and
he asks the chaplain to
lead the room in prayer.
So you've got more than 90 Senators
and their staff bowing their heads
and praying together while
this violent mob elsewhere in
the capital was causing mayhem.
>> So remember Lindsey Graham not
only acquitted Donald Trump,
but he went on to criticize Mitch
McConnell for giving a speech after
he also acquitted Donald Trump.
Saying that Trump is in fact
responsible for the violence that
broke out that day.
So, Lindsey Graham on the day,
went from wanting to question
the electoral college votes to then
giving this impassioned speech on
the Senate floor when he chose
to stop questioning the electoral
college votes, because he was
terrified after the riot took
place and I want to just.
Quickly remind you all of what that
scene looked like before I hand it
over to you Jinx.
Let's take a quick look at what
Lindsey Graham's behavior was like
on the senate floor after
the rioters had done what they did.
>> It is over.
The final thing Joe Biden.
I've traveled the world with Joe.
I hope they,
lost I prayed he would loose.
He won.
He's the legitimate president of
the United States.
I cannot convince people, certain
groups by my words, but I will tell
you by my actions, that maybe, I
among any above all others in this
body need to say this, Joe Biden,
Kamala Harris are lawfully elected
and will become the president and
the vice president the united
states on January the 20th.
>> [APPLAUSE] Of course,
Lindsey Graham has now turned back
around and is back to kissing
Donald Trump's ass.
When he was afraid for his life,
he was like, why are you defending
a sergeant-at-arms?
Why aren't you defending us?
And then of course the minute
his life is no longer in danger.
Golem turns around and
he's like, crashes.
Mas have power.
Okay, so
that's who Lindsey Gollum is.
He's just the sickest man in
America.
Congratulations, Lindsey Graham.
You've just replaced Ted Cruz.
You must be so proud.
So, but I want you to get a sense
of how pathetic all of those
Republicans are.
You hear that podcast.
They were all praying for
their lives.
With bowed heads, Then they turned
around and voted to protect them.
Can you imagine anything more
cowardly?
Anything more pathetic.
The only thing I can imagine is if
they weren't trying to kill you.
They were just,
like maligning your family members
like calling your wife ugly, and
saying your dad's a murderer.
All right, that's Ted Cruz.
The second biggest defender of
Donald Trump, there is no bottom to
the politician barrel, and
especially among Republicans.
But at least the democrats
are pissed and then voted against
Trump for trying to kill them.
The main look guys,
I know they were looking to murder
Nancy Pelosi.
That's clear on the record.
They were hunting her they were
hunting other congressional
representatives, etc.
But the main guy they were
trying to kill that Trump's mob was
Mike Pence,
the republican Vice President.
I keep emphasizing that because
republicans turned around and said,
my God, now that we're not dead now
that Trump failed in killing us,
and killing his own vice president,
we're going to vote on his behalf.
If you saw it in game of thrones,
you'd probably think like, come on,
they jumped the shark.
Nobody could be that pathetic.
Turns out they can.
>> Well, I think
Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland
who is a republican understands
exactly what's going on.
And remember Lindsey Graham was
confronted by a giant group
of Trump supporters at the airport
after he gave that impassioned
speech on the senate floor,
no longer questioning the electoral
college votes for Joe Biden.
And so he's terrified.
I mean, two things drive
politicians like Lindsey Graham,
his own political future, his own
political career, but also fear.
I mean, they are absolutely
terrified by Trump's supporters.
They're terrified of Trump.
And Larry Hogan puts that out or
lays that out perfectly in
this next clip.
A lot of Republicans are outraged
but they don't have the courage to
stand up and vote that way because,
they're afraid of being primary too
or they're going to lose their
careers.
I mean, I think you got to look at
what's good for the country and not
worry about the next election or,
or whether you're going to be
elected to something or not.
>> And the New York Times also
had this written in
one of their pieces.
Most GOP senators privately
acknowledge Trump was to blame.
Yet most could not bring themselves
to find him guilty of sparking
the chaos, brutality, and darkness
that engulfed the capital for
fear of potentially offending
the Trump supporters Republicans
have come to rely on.
To win elections, and will need
again in 2022 if they hope to
regain the Senate, a paramount goal
of Mr. McConnell's.
>> So, that's actually one of the
best and most accurate things I've
seen written in mainstream media.
And I'm glad you picked that quote,
Ana, because that's the one I was
impressed by.
Because that actually does give you
a sense of what's happening.
And the only slight bone I'd have
to pick with how they
characterize it,
as they call it Trump supporters.
No Republican voters.
Overall, it's not some minority of
Republican voters that are Trump
supporters.
New poll out today confirming what
every other poll has shown.
68% of Republican voters say
Donald Trump is their leader.
Not did they support them,
that's a much higher number.
But 68%,
over two-thirds say no, no.
I don't care what he did, I don't
care who might've gotten killed, I
don't care that they attacked cops,
I don't care that they were trying
to murder his own vice president,
I don't care.
Donald Trump is our leader.
In fact, 60 to 70% in a couple of
polls say that they would leave
the republican party and
join any party that Trump supports.
So the overwhelming majority of
Republican voters liked what
happened on January six, because,
look, remember right wingers
in this country and this is again,
what mainstream media.
Will never tell you because they're
afraid of offending
the Republicans.
They've never been for equality,
literally in conservatives and
right wingers in this country have
never once been in favour of
equality and they hate justice.
So when it looked like we were
going to have equality and
a democracy that elected
someone they didn't agree with.
They're like, let's go to what we
always go to violence.
During the slavery days we did
violence during the Civil War.
We did violence during Jim Crow.
We did lynchings we did violence.
So now we lost well,
then we don't like democracy.
We'll see, we care more about
impressing you than we care about
America or democracy.
We've declared war in
America before.
That's how little we care
about America.
So once again, they chose violence.
And to this day, they love the idea
of Donald Trump committing violence
against every other politician.
So that's who
the Republican voters are.
So that's why on the day that we
showed you,
Lindsey Graham on January 6,
he said, quote, count me out.
Enough is enough.
And he turned around right
afterwards and said,
count me back in.
It turns out my voters are monsters
and my job is to kiss their ass.