Lindsey Graham Admits Republicans Are Empty-Handed on Impeachment

Republican Senator and Trump-critic-turned-cultist Lindsey Graham admitted that House Republicans have failed to prove their case against President Biden: “If there were a smoking gun, I think we’d be talking about it.”

This is the latest devastating admission from a prominent Republican that their party’s relentless quest to impeach the President has utterly failed on the merits. 

Graham appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and was asked by host Kristen Welker to react to recent comments from Graham’s colleague, Chuck Grassley. 

Grassley told CNN last week that despite his misgivings, the lack of evidence to support them means he can’t conclude the President is “guilty of anything.” 

Grassley’s admission is arguably more damning than Graham’s own since Grassley helped lead Senate Republicans’ 2019 extensive investigations into Hunter Biden and his father. Its final report concluded that there was no evidence Joe Biden committed any crime. 

In response, Graham said he hadn’t “paid much attention” to House Republicans’ impeachment efforts and reiterated the high standard of proof for impeachment. When pressed, Graham conceded that “if there were a smoking gun, I think we’d be talking about it.”

This, in turn, prompted an angry Marjorie Taylor Greene to rant about Graham at the right-wing Turning Point USA conference. 

“How can Lindsey Graham say he hasn’t seen a smoking gun of evidence?” she said to the Trump-supporting crowd before suggesting Graham should be primaried and defeated in 2026. “Sounds like somebody should run for Senator in South Carolina!”

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