Lindsey Graham hit with fact check after repeating Trump’s immigrant crime claims

Lindsey Graham was fact-checked live on air by CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday after criticizing Kamala Harris for “crazy liberal” immigration policies — despite her endorsement of a border security compromise negotiated in the Senate that was also supported by some of Graham’s allies.

Graham was asked about Donald Trump calling Harris “mentally impaired” during an interview on State of the Union when he pivoted to attacking the vice president’s policy positions, a strategy he has often urged Donald Trump to take but with little success.

“I just think she’s crazy liberal. I don’t think that she’s… I just think the better course to take is to prosecute the case that her policies are destroying the country. They’re crazy liberal. 400,000 people have been let loose in our country. 16,000 people convicted of being rapists. 13,000 convicted murderers, and 400,000 people generally convicted of crimes were released on her watch,” Graham said.

Tapper then responded by saying that CNN had fact-checked the senator’s statement, and found that it was misrepresented to imply that such numbers of criminals had been released under the Biden-Harris administration. Those numbers roughly described migrants released from custody over a decade or more, including the entirety of the Trump presidency.

“That statistic is actually over decades… and some of them are in prison. Not ICE prisons, but federal prisons,” Tapper said, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Graham shot back: “I can tell you this: the man who killed Laken Riley, in Georgia, was released by the Biden-Harris administration.”

“I'm not saying she's crazy. I'm saying your policies are batshit crazy.”<a rel=«nofollow» target="_blank"