Trump Talk Gets Testy On 'ABC This Week'

Sen. Lindsey Graham and ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos got into a heated back-and-forth during a live interview Sunday about the federal indictment against ex-president Donald Trump.

The NY Post reports the South Carolina Republican — who has endorsed Trump as the Republican candidate for president in 2024 –exploded at the “This Week” co-anchor after he was asked to clarify if he believed the former president’s claims that he “did nothing wrong” in the classified documents cases.

“No let me finish!,” Graham barked.

The tense moment took place just 30 seconds into the interview, after Graham started to compare the case against the candidate to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server, which prompted an FBI investigation in the home stretch of the 2016 presidential race, which she ultimately lost to Trump.

“Well here’s what I believe, we live in an America where if you’re the Democratic candidate for president… you can set up a private server, in your basement, to conduct government business, and when an investigation is had about your activity,” Graham began as Stephanopoulos interjected.

“This panel you had was ridiculous,” Graham countered, referencing a previous segment on the program featuring legal observers, as he grew visibly agitated.

“I’m trying to answer the question from a Republican point of view,” Graham continued. “That may not be acceptable on this show.

“Yes, I don’t like what President Trump did in certain aspects. I don’t like that Joe Biden had classified information on the garage; I don’t like that Mike Pence carelessly took classified information; I don’t like any of that,” he said.

“But what I don’t like is a system in America where the secretary of state, who’s a Democratic candidate for president, has people take a hammer to social media devices and break them apart, apply bleach bit to a hard drive to erase emails, allow classified information to get on a felon’s computer — Anthony Weiner — you haven’t even mentioned that,” Graham added.

“Most Republicans believe that we live in a country where Hillary Clinton did very similar things and nothing happened to her,” Graham said angrily.

“Did he do things wrong? Yes, he may have. He will be tried about that,” the senator ultimately conceded about Trump, who was hit with a 37-count federal indictment Friday for allegedly hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort.