Graham: Lara Trump is biggest winner of impeachment trial

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) predicted former President Trump's
daughter-in-law Lara will benefit from his second acquittal in
an impeachment trial this weekend.

"The biggest winner of this whole impeachment trial is Lara
Trump," Graham said on "Fox News Sunday." "My dear friend
Richard Burr, who I like and have been friends to a long time,
just made Lara Trump almost the certain nominee for the Senate
seat in North Carolina to replace him if she runs, and I’ll
certainly be behind her because she represents the future of the
Republican Party.”

Burr, a Republican senator who is retiring, voted to convict
Trump on Saturday on the sole article of inciting an
insurrection on the U.S. Capitol earlier this year.

"The evidence is compelling that President Trump is guilty of
inciting an insurrection against a coequal branch of government
and that the charge rises to the level of high Crimes and
Misdemeanors," Burr said in the statement on Saturday.
"Therefore, I have voted to convict."

The North Carolina GOP hours later condemned Burr's vote,
aligning itself with Trump.

"North Carolina Republicans sent Senator Burr to the United
States Senate to uphold the Constitution and his vote today to
convict in a trial that he declared unconstitutional is shocking
and disappointing,” the party chairman said.

The state's other Republican senator, Thom Tillis, narrowly won
reelection in 2020 and voted to acquit Trump.

A poll taken late last year showed Lara Trump among the leaders
of possible Republican primary candidates to fill Burr's vacant
seat. She is married to the former president's son Eric and was
a top surrogate for both his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

Graham, a leading Trump loyalist in the Republican caucus, also
said on Sunday that Congress has "opened a Pandora’s box to
future presidents" and "abused" the model of the legislative
branch's check on the executive.

"I don’t know how Kamala Harris doesn’t get impeached if the
Republicans take over the House, because she actually bailed out
rioters, and one of the rioters went back to the streets and
broke somebody’s head open," Graham said, in an apparent
reference to protests for social justice that took place last
summer.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/538826-graham-lara-trump-is-
biggest-winner-of-impeachment-trial