Sen. Lindsey Graham Thursday accused the Democratic Party with having colluded with Russians against President Donald Trump, and said he thinks that after questioning former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein before the Senate Judiciary Committee that "nobody on the Democratic side gives a damn about this."
"I think the Democratic Party is the one who colluded with the Russians and Christopher Steele was paid for by the Democratic Party," the South Carolina Republican, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
"I'm hoping at least there will be some interest by the Democratic Party of trying to explain to the American people how Carter Page's life was turned upside down, how the FBI and the Department of Justice could lie to the court over and over, and have some interest in finding out how it happened and stopping it," he added.
Steele, was "a former British agent who got a Russian subsource who was connected to the Russian intelligence community, and they created a document against Donald Trump that is a bunch of lies and garbage," Graham continued."They got the FISA court to use that document to issue a warrant four times against Carter Page."
Meanwhile, Graham said Democrats pushed him and Sens. Chuck Grassley and Thom Tillis to support legislation to make sure former special counsel Robert Mueller could not be fired except without cause and to investigate everything concerning Trump.
"Rosenstein said if I knew this then I wouldn't have signed the warrant, and oh, by the way, now that I know this, there's no reason to suspect (Michael) Flynn, Carter Page, or George Papadopoulos of working with the Russians," said Graham.
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