Lindsey Graham knew what he was doing with his warning on Fox News

The pro-Trump right has a lot to gain from making the Justice Department more fearful of backlash. [View in browser]( [Image]( August 30, 2022 THE LATEST [Alternate text] Lindsey Graham knew what he was doing with his warning on Fox News]( by Zeeshan Aleem Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told Fox News Sunday that if Trump is indicted for "for mishandling classified information…there literally will be riots in the street." Zeeshan Aleem says that wasn't a warning from Graham — "It was a threat." "Trump and his allies," [Aleem writes,]( "ultimately have an interest in promoting self-fulfilling warnings of chaos and a harsh political price for the U.S.'s federal law enforcement apparatus." If Republicans succeed in making the Justice Department too afraid to bring charges they otherwise would, Aleem writes, they'll have sown "the seeds for even fiercer authoritarianism and lawlessness in Trump's potential third presidential campaign." 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