South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham incited the fury of President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters after describing the president’s decision to pardon more than 1500 Jan. 6 insurrectionists as a “mistake”—with one former prisoner slamming Graham as a “Republican in name only.

The South Carolina Republican told CNN that he “did not like” how Trump pardoned people who “beat up cops,” and suggested he would be open to curtailing the presidential pardon power.

Trump pardoned about 1,500 people who were charged for their actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That number includes 172 who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers. Graham, however, points out that Trump said he would grant the pardons if he was reelected.

Lindsey Graham on Sunday said President Donald Trump sent "the wrong signal" in pardoning Jan. 6 rioters who violently assaulted police officers. Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," the South Carolina Republican said: "When you pardon people who attack police officers,

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Trump ally, affirmed his opinion of Trump pardoning Jan. 6 rioters saying he doesn't like anything that would send the "wrong signal"

A U.S. Senator from the Upstate has been vocally critical of President Trump. Lindsey Graham appeared on Meet The Press on NBC News Sunday that he believes pardoning those charged in the January 6th incident at the Capitol is ” a mistake”.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham weighs in on President Trumps sweeping pardons of nearly all January 6th defendants