Sen. Lindsey Graham dismissed criticism of former President Donald Trump for calling Vice President Kamala Harris “mentally ill.” That's because he thinks her policies are “out of line.”
“I think she's a crazy liberal. I don't question her. [mental faculties]” Graham (R-S.C.) said on CNN's “State of the Union” on Sunday when asked about President Trump's remarks at a rally the day before.
“I think it's better to just accuse her policies of destroying the country. They're crazy liberals,” he said, rattling off a laundry list of policy grievances.
“I'm not saying she's crazy. I'm saying your party, your policies are crazy.”
Graham also noted that Democrats have repeatedly made similar attacks on Trump in the past.
“They call him a madman. [Rep. Nancy] Pelosi wanted to invoke the 25th Amendment. Why do we never talk about it? ” Graham asked host Jake Tapper about hypocrisy.
Trump, 78, accused Harris, 59, of being “mentally ill” while mocking the Harris-Biden administration's record on illegal immigration at a rally on Saturday.
“Joe Biden was born that way and Kamala was born that way. She was born that way,” he said. “And if you think about it, the only people who would allow something like this to happen to this country are mentally ill people.”
Harris traveled down to the U.S.-Mexico border last Friday while swinging through Douglas, Arizona, marking her second border visit, the first being in El Paso, Texas, in June 2021.
Just before the vice president makes his first border visit since 2021. fresh data According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than 425,431 noncitizens who are not in detention facilities have been convicted of crimes, including 222,141 who are facing charges.
Of this group, 13,099 were convicted of murder, 62,231 were convicted of assault, 56,533 were convicted of drug-related crimes, and 14,301 were convicted of robbery, according to the dataset.
Notably, the dataset refers to non-citizens who entered the country through any administrative agency and also includes those detained in prisons.
President Trump has been furious about Harris' record on the border, pointing to ICE data and claiming it rises to the level of impeachment for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“If a Republican did the same thing, that Republican would be impeached and removed from office, and of course for high crimes and misdemeanors,” he added in his speech.
In recent days, the Trump Vance campaign has slammed Democratic rhetoric against Trump, particularly Paul's labeling of the 45th president as a threat to democracy following two high-profile assassination attempts against Trump. There is.
Graham also weighed in on the latest developments in the Middle East, including Friday's Israeli attack on Beirut, which later led Hezbollah to confirm the killing of its notorious longtime boss Hassan Nasrallah and other leaders.
“No one in Israel even talks to the Biden administration. The Biden administration is paralyzed by fear of Iran. In the name of de-escalation, the world is on fire,” Graham argued.
“If Trump wins, I promise you we'll fix this problem right away.”
