Well, well, well

According to a long-form piece published by The Washington Post on Sunday, [Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)] was furious that lawmakers were being forced to evacuate and yelled at the Senate sergeant-at-arms, "What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns. Use them.”

We give you guns for a reason,” Graham reportedly continued. “Use them.”

  The Hill

And one did. And now the GOP wants his hide.

“I heard when the 75 senators were confined in a room with about 75 staff people, Lindsey Graham with his mask off started screaming at one of the officers — I think it was one of the captains — saying, ‘How come you didn’t protect us? It’s doing your job,'” Brown told MSNBC's Ari Melber about one week after the attack.

"He was screaming at an officer,” said [Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)]. “He had his mask off screaming at this officer from 5 feet away — I was maybe 10 feet on the other side — that the officer, the police, didn't do enough to protect us."

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According to the Post's report, Graham also called former President Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, giving her suggestions on what her father should say to appeal to the rioters to calm down and vacate the Capitol.

“You need to get these people out of here,” Graham reportedly said to Ivanka Trump over the phone. “This thing is going south. This is not good. You’re going to have to tell these people to stand down. Stand down.”

“This thing is going south." Almost sounds like he was in on "this thing", and the use of "you" almost sounds like she was, too.

"They could have blown the building up. They could have killed us all. They could've destroyed the government," Graham said to reporters one day after the breach. "Lethal force should have been used. ... We dodged a major bullet. If this is not a wake-up call I don't know what is."

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On the day of the attack, Graham called for the rioters to be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law" and agreed with then-President-elect Biden that the breach had been an "insurrection."

And yet now they've been transformed by GOP propaganda into patriots.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.