{"id":1601077,"date":"2022-08-11T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601077"},"modified":"2022-08-11T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:41:22","slug":"this-is-ridiculous-lindsey-graham-skips-2020-georgia-election-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-ridiculous-lindsey-graham-skips-2020-georgia-election-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is Ridiculous\u2019: Lindsey Graham Skips 2020 Georgia Election Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fthis-is-ridiculous-lindsey-graham-skips-2020-georgia-election-hearing%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=1601077&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham reportedly declined to appear for a scheduled Wednesday court appearance in an investigation about whether Trump and associates acted illegally in attempting to overturn President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 Georgia election results, according to Atlanta CBS affiliate 46 News.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis claims \u201ca multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,\u201d the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs46.com\/2022\/08\/10\/sen-lindsey-graham-no-show-scheduled-fulton-county-court-appearance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Graham\u2019s Communications Director Kevin Bishop told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Graham \u201cnever planned to attend\u201d the hearing.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/09\/cnn-david-axelrod-trump-raid-mar-a-lago-doj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: David Axelrod On Trump Raid: \u2018This Has Never Been Done In The History Of Our Country\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7499628\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7499628\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7499628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-07-15T200152Z_1582444952_RC2JCV9DKJXN_RTRMADP_3_USA-CAPITOL-SECURITY-GEORGIA-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks at a news conference in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 11, 2021. Picture taken May 11, 2021. REUTERS\/Linda So\/File Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-07-15T200152Z_1582444952_RC2JCV9DKJXN_RTRMADP_3_USA-CAPITOL-SECURITY-GEORGIA-scaled-1.jpg 1866w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-07-15T200152Z_1582444952_RC2JCV9DKJXN_RTRMADP_3_USA-CAPITOL-SECURITY-GEORGIA-87x120.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-07-15T200152Z_1582444952_RC2JCV9DKJXN_RTRMADP_3_USA-CAPITOL-SECURITY-GEORGIA-452x620-1.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-07-15T200152Z_1582444952_RC2JCV9DKJXN_RTRMADP_3_USA-CAPITOL-SECURITY-GEORGIA-768x1054-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-07-15T200152Z_1582444952_RC2JCV9DKJXN_RTRMADP_3_USA-CAPITOL-SECURITY-GEORGIA-1120x1536-1.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-07-15T200152Z_1582444952_RC2JCV9DKJXN_RTRMADP_3_USA-CAPITOL-SECURITY-GEORGIA-1493x2048-1.jpg 1493w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7499628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks at a news conference in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 11, 2021. Picture taken May 11, 2021. REUTERS\/Linda So\/File Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe attorneys for Graham and the Fulton County DA were arguing before a federal judge about the subpoena,\u201d Bishop said. U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May said she hoped to rule on the matter Friday but might not do so until Monday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-georgia-atlanta-crime-5560602d043602172db2e2313064c979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop sent the DCNF statement Graham made earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will take this as far as we need to take it. I was Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and had to vote on certifying an election,\u201d Graham said. \u201cThis is ridiculous. This weaponization of the law needs to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I will use the courts,\u201d he declared. \u201cWe will go as far as we need to go and do whatever needs to be done to make sure that people like me can do their jobs without fear of some county prosecutor coming after you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Willis stated in July that Graham called Georgia Secretary Brad Raffensperger and members of his staff at least twice in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election to question them about examining certain Georgia absentee ballots \u201cto explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome\u201d for Trump,\u201d the outlet reported. She also reportedly said the senator referenced \u201callegations of widespread voter fraud\u201d in the Georgia election that aligned with Trump Campaign affiliates\u2019 statements.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham reportedly declined to appear for a scheduled Wednesday court appearance in an investigation about whether Trump and associates acted illegally in attempting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"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-1601077","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\/1601077","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601077\/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=1601077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}