{"id":1529588,"date":"2022-06-27T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529588"},"modified":"2022-06-27T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:20:08","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-lindsey-graham-being-heckled-at-the-airport-for-his-stance-on-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-lindsey-graham-being-heckled-at-the-airport-for-his-stance-on-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Lindsey Graham Being Heckled At The Airport For His Stance On Gun Control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-video-show-lindsey-graham-being-heckled-at-the-airport-for-his-stance-on-gun-control%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bo.matlock.5\/posts\/pfbid0YYg4ZFjL4YrDWKbPuZQCbKvEmFkXrc2mfAUJ6WiYMsiQGvzN1x5pgGcfNpFFgc3Zl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham being called a traitor at an airport for his stance on gun control.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video was not captured recently and is unrelated to gun control. It dates back to 2021 when Graham publicly ceased his support for former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Graham issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgraham.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=8DE67DAD-4660-4ACF-9FDA-5FFAF542EA9C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> declaring his support for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, a bipartisan gun safety bill, on June 21. The act seeks to tighten restrictions around obtaining a firearm license ad also provides funding for mental health services and crisis intervention programs, according to a statement published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Bipartisan-Safer-Communities-Act-SAP-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bo.matlock.5\/videos\/807403926910704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> shared on Facebook appears to show Graham sitting in an airport while a crowd chants \u201cTraitor\u201d at him. \u201cHere is Lindsey Graham the RINO Twink being confronted over his stance on gun control,\u201d the video\u2019s caption claims. \u201cHe deserves it. He would sell his mom out to be relevant.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/03\/17\/fact-check-lindsey-graham-trump-knows-medicine-viruses-scientists-nih-cdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Lindsey Graham Say That Trump \u2018Probably Knows More About Medicine\u2019 Than The \u2018So-Called Scientists At The NIH And CDC\u2019?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video was not captured recently, however. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/08\/us\/politics\/traitor-lindsey-graham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/01\/08\/trump-supporters-call-lindsey-graham-traitor-456592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a> both published articles reporting on the situation in January 2021 and explained the harassment had to do with Graham\u2019s relationship with Trump. On the evening of Jan. 6, Graham publicly ceased his support for Trump and refused to support his challenges to the 2020 presidential election, stating, \u201cAll I can say is, count me out. Enough is enough,\u201d Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, various Trump supporters crowded around Graham at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington and began calling him a \u201ctraitor\u201d and a \u201cliar\u201d for voting to certify President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 victory, according to The New York Times. The video shared on Facebook matches descriptions and other videos of the January 2021 incident. There is no evidence to suggest the video has anything to do with gun control.<\/p>\n<p>A similar video showing Graham being escorted out of the airport by security was shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dlippman\/status\/1347612365093826565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> Jan. 8 by Politico reporter Daniel Lippman. \u201cA source sends this video of a group of Trump supporters today harassing Sen. Lindsey Graham at Reagan airport and loudly calling him a \u2018traitor\u2019 after he publicly broke with Trump earlier this week,\u201d Lippman captioned the video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RbCI0syimnk&#038;ab_channel=Reuters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> published a video from another angle on Youtube Jan. 9 with the title, \u201c\u2018Traitor!\u2019 Senator Lindsey Graham heckled by Trump supporters at airport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham being called a traitor at an airport for his stance on gun control.Verdict: FalseThe video was not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}