南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆(Lindsey Graham)面临反弹，他声称，如果前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)因处理总统记录不当而被起诉，政治暴力将会爆发。
美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)周二在宾夕法尼亚州的一次政治集会上，虽然没有提到格雷厄姆的名字，但似乎提到了他，他说:“你打开电视，看到资深参议员和众议员说，如果这样那样的事情发生，街上就会有流血。我们到底在哪里?”
格雷厄姆发表上述言论之际，特朗普支持者对执法部门的威胁在Mar-a-Lago搜查和至少一名男子后升级声称它袭击了联邦调查局的一个办公室俄亥俄州辛辛那提市，后来被警察击毙。
执法官员告诉ABC新闻，他们正在调查显然与嫌疑人有关的社交媒体帖子，这些帖子在联邦调查局搜查后的几天里呼吁暴力。
这位参议院司法委员会前主席周日在福克斯新闻频道露面时表示，如果特朗普面临以下法律后果，“街上会发生骚乱”离职后带着至少184份机密文件去了他的Mar-a-Lago庄园。
在司法部和国家档案馆与特朗普的法律团队进行了几个月的谈判，以让他归还文件后，联邦调查局于8月8日在Mar-a-Lago执行了搜查令。但自那以后，格雷厄姆和许多其他共和党人认为，特朗普在DOJ如何对待希拉里方面面临双重标准。
具体而言，特朗普2016年民主党总统竞选对手克林顿在担任国务卿期间使用包含机密信息的私人电子邮件服务器受到调查后，没有受到指控。
然而，这两种情况是不同的。在这两起案件中，联邦调查局开展了刑事调查，获得了搜查令，以获取或查阅相关文件。但在克林顿的案件中，联邦调查局在2016年7月发布的调查结果中表示，机密信息是因粗心大意而被不当传播的，而不是试图规避法律。
在希拉里·克林顿的私人服务器上发现的“机密信息”与在Mar-a-Lago发现的不同，特别是当它涉及高度敏感的特殊访问项目时。根据司法部关于克林顿案件的报告，调查人员在克林顿的服务器上发现了七个电子邮件链，这些电子邮件链“与一个特殊的访问项目有关”，而特朗普似乎将SAP材料保存在Mar-a-Lago。
特朗普的案件正在进行中，但联邦调查局突袭的未密封搜查令和财产收据证实，这位前总统从白宫拿走了正确标记的机密文件。
专家说，在没有重要证据的情况下，司法部不太可能执行这样的搜查令。“司法部不会轻易做出这样的决定，”加兰在联邦调查局搜查后的新闻发布会上说。
“如果他们试图起诉特朗普总统在希拉里·克林顿(Hilary Clinton)的地下室安装服务器后错误处理机密信息，街上真的会发生骚乱。我担心我们的国家，”格雷厄姆对福克斯新闻频道主持人、前南卡罗莱纳州共和党众议员特雷·高迪说。在节目的后期，格雷厄姆再次重复了暴力威胁。
格雷厄姆周一在查尔斯顿再次加倍强调他早些时候的言论，再次将特朗普的联邦调查局搜查与对克林顿的调查相提并论，他说:“美国不能容忍这种双重标准。我认为她做的很糟糕，但她最终还是通过了。”
他用不那么煽动性的语言表示，如果特朗普被起诉，会有许多“不安的人”。“我拒绝暴力。我不是在呼吁暴力。暴力不是答案，但我只是告诉你，”他说。
尽管越来越多的证据表明这位前总统有罪，但特朗普和格雷厄姆等盟友一再指责司法部对他有偏见。
司法部在星期五公开了支持搜查特朗普Mar-a-Lago房产的修订宣誓书。这份宣誓书概述了国家档案和记录管理局(National Archives and Records Administration)与特朗普团队之间数月的互动，以确保归还从白宫不当取走的记录。
“包括我在内的大多数共和党人认为，谈到特朗普，没有法律。一切都是为了抓住他。在特朗普问题上存在双重标准，”格雷厄姆说。
特朗普在他的真理社交媒体平台上发布了格雷厄姆评论的视频剪辑，但没有评论。
周一，当被问及对格雷厄姆的评论的回应时，白宫新闻秘书郭佳欣·让-皮埃尔说:“我们已经看到共和党人攻击我们的民主。我们已经看到MAGA共和党人剥夺我们的权利，制造暴力威胁，包括这个周末……”
加州民主党众议员埃里克·斯瓦尔韦尔，发微博周一，格雷厄姆的言论与民主党人整个夏天看到的立法胜利形成了鲜明对比。
“我们正在为减轻老年人的处方药费用、减轻工人阶级家庭的通货膨胀、减轻父母的大规模枪击事件、减轻农民的气候危机而斗争。像@LindseyGrahamSC这样的共和党人承诺暴动，”他在推特上写道。
华盛顿邮报发表社论“这种不负责任的言论是没有任何借口的，这不仅会引发暴力，而且也是对民主规范的蔑视。”
美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)获得的一份新的联合情报公报证实，自搜查特朗普在佛罗里达州的住所以来，联邦调查局(FBI)对其特工和执法人员的威胁和暴力行为(包括武装冲突)有所增加。
根据公告，自搜查以来，联邦调查局和DHS已经确定了多个明确的威胁，并呼吁有针对性地杀害与棕榈滩搜查有关的司法、执法和政府官员，包括批准棕榈滩搜查令的联邦法官。
格雷厄姆一直是前总统的坚定捍卫者，尽管在1月6日国会大厦遇袭后与特朗普短暂决裂。
他目前正在抵抗大陪审团调查对格鲁吉亚潜在的选举干预进行调查，对抗传票，以证明特朗普涉嫌威胁格鲁吉亚国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯佩格和其他州官员推翻他在2020年输给总统乔·拜登的调查，要求拉芬斯珀格“找到”足够的选票以确保他的胜利。
格雷厄姆有最近雇佣的前总统特朗普的第一位白宫法律顾问唐纳德·麦克甘(Donald McGahn)将成为他的法律团队的一部分。
这项调查由富尔顿县地方检察官法尼·威利斯领导，他在7月份传唤了格雷厄姆。在反对该命令的过程中，格雷厄姆辩称，他在2020年大选后据称给佐治亚州官员打电话时，是在作为参议员和司法委员会主席的“官方立法职责范围内”行事。
In this Feb. 28, 2020, file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham stands onstage with President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in North Charleston, S.C.
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周一，来自富尔顿县地方检察官办公室的新法庭文件抨击了临时传票授予格雷厄姆的区块联邦上诉法院。该动议提到，特朗普和格雷厄姆的关系强度削弱了参议员反对作证的努力。
富尔顿首席高级助理地方检察官唐纳德·韦克福德(Donald Wakeford)在周一提交的一份动议中写道，“格雷厄姆参议员重复他之前的论点，并不意味着他有权部分撤销指控，地方检察官恳请驳回他的动议。”。
富尔顿县地方检察官反应此前，格雷厄姆周日告诉高迪，他有一个反对在大陪审团面前作证的“良好的法律案例”。
“如果我们让县检察官开始传唤参议员和国会议员作为他们工作时的证人，那么你已经打破了我们这里的宪法平衡，”格雷厄姆周日对高迪说。
“我有一个很好的法律案例，我要继续下去……你热爱法律，我热爱法律。我从来没有像现在这样担心法律和政治。你怎么能告诉一个保守的共和党人，当涉及到特朗普时，这个系统是有效的?”
Graham faces backlash after claiming violence could break out if Trump prosecuted
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is facing backlash after claiming political violence will break out if former President Donald Trump is indicted for mishandling presidential records.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday, while not mentioning Graham by name, appeared to call him out at a political rally in Pennsylvania, saying, "the idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressmen saying if such and such happens, there'll be blood in the street. Where the hell are we?"
Graham's comments came at a time when Trump supporters' threats against law enforcement have escalated following the Mar-a-Lago search and at least one manciting it attacked an FBI field officein Cincinnati, Ohio, and was later killed by police.
Law enforcement officials told ABC News they were investigating social media posts apparently linked to the suspect that called for violence in the days after the FBI search.
During an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said there "will be riots in the street" if Trump faces legal ramifications fortaking at least 184 classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate after leaving office.
After months of the Justice Department and National Archives negotiating with Trump's legal teams to get him to return the documents, the FBI executed a search warrant on Aug. 8 at Mar-a-Lago. But since then, Graham and many other Republicans have argued that Trump is facing a double standard from how the DOJ treated Hillary Clinton.
Specifically, Clinton, Trump's 2016 Democratic rival for president, was not charged after probes into her use of a private email server containing classified information while she was secretary of state.
The two cases are not the same, however. In both cases, the FBI launched criminal investigations, obtaining search warrants to obtain or access relevant documents. But in Clinton's case, the FBI said in findings released in July 2016, the classified information had been improperly transmitted via carelessness, not in an attempt to circumvent the law.
The caliber of "classified information" found on Hillary Clinton’s private servers was not the same as what was found at Mar-a-Lago, particularly as it relates to highly-sensitive Special Access Programs. According to the Department of Justice's report on the Clinton case, investigators found seven email chains on Clinton’s servers that were “relevant to” and “associated with a Special Access Program, while it appears Trump was keeping SAP materials themselves at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump's case is ongoing, but an unsealed search warrant and property receipt from the FBI raid confirmed that the former president took properly marked classified documents from the White House.
Experts have said it's highly unlikely that the Justice Department would have pursued such a search warrant without significant evidence. "The department does not take such a decision lightly," Garland said during the press conference following the FBI search.
"If they try to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after Hilary Clinton set up a server in her basement, there literally will be riots in the street. I worry about our country," Graham said to Fox News host and former South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy. Later in the program, Graham repeated the threat of violence again.
Graham again doubled down on his earlier remarks in Charleston on Monday, again likening Trump's FBI search to the probe into Clinton, saying: "America cannot live with this kind of double standard. I thought what she did was bad, but she got a pass at the end of the day."
Using less inflammatory language, he said that that there would be many "upset people" if Trump was prosecuted. "I reject violence. I'm not calling for violence. Violence is not the answer, but I'm just telling you," he said.
Despite growing evidence against the former president, Trump and allies like Graham have repeatedly accused the Justice Department of being biased against him.
The Justice Department onFridaymade public the redacted affidavit that supported the search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. The affidavit outlines months of interactions between the National Archives and Records Administration and Trump's team to secure the return of records that were improperly taken from the White House.
"Most Republicans, including me, believes when it comes to Trump, there is no law. It's all about getting him. There's a double standard when it comes to Trump," Graham said.
Trump posted a video clip of Graham's comments on his Truth Social media platform but without comment.
Asked for a response to Graham's comments Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, "we have seen MAGA Republicans attack our democracy. We have seen MAGA Republicans take away our rights, make threats of violence, including this weekend ..."
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.,tweetedon Monday about Graham's remarks in contrast to the legislative victories that Democrats have seen throughout the summer.
"We are fighting for relief from prescription drug costs for Seniors, relief from inflation for working-class families, relief from mass shootings for parents, relief from the climate crisis for farmers. Republicans like @LindseyGrahamSC are promising riots," he tweeted.
The Washington Posteditorialized, "There is no excuse for this irresponsible rhetoric, which not only invites violence but also defies democratic norms."
A new joint intelligence bulletin obtained by ABC News confirms that the FBI has seen an uptick in threats and acts of violence, including armed encounters, to its agents and law enforcement since their search of Trump's Florida home.
Since the search, the FBI and DHS have identified multiple articulated threats and calls for the targeted killing of judicial, law enforcement, and government officials associated with the Palm Beach search, including the federal judge who approved the Palm Beach search warrant, according to the bulletin.
Graham has been a staunch defender of the former president, despite briefly breaking with Trump right after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
He's currently resisting agrand jury probeinto potential election interference in Georgia, fighting a subpoena to testify in connection with the investigation into Trump's alleged effort to intimidate Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state officials into overturning his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden, asking Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to ensure his victory.
Graham hadrecently hiredformer president Trump's first White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to be part of his legal team.
The probe is led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who subpoenaed Graham in July. In fighting the order, Graham has argued, among other things, that he was acting "within [his] official legislative responsibilities" as a senator and chairman of the Judiciary Committee when he allegedly made calls to Georgia officials in the wake of the 2020 election.
On Monday, new court filings from the Fulton County District Attorney's office blasted the temporary subpoenablock granted to Grahamby a federal appeals court. The motion mentions that the strength of Trump and Graham's relationship weakens the senator's push against testifying.
"Senator Graham's repetition of his previous arguments does not entitle him to partial quashal, and the District Attorney respectfully requests that his motion be denied," Donald Wakeford, Fulton's chief senior assistant district attorney, wrote in a motion filed on Monday.
The Fulton County DA'sresponsecomes after Graham told Gowdy on Sunday that he's got a "good legal case" against testifying before a grand jury.
"If we let county prosecutors start calling senators and members of Congress as witnesses when they're doing their job, then you've got out of kilter our constitutional balance here," Graham said about the probe on Sunday to Gowdy.
"I've got a good legal case, I'm going to pursue it …. You love the law, I love the law. I've never been more worried about the law and politics as I am right now. How can you tell a conservative Republican that the system works when it comes to Trump?"
