‘I Hope They Pay’: Senator Comes Out Swinging In Defense Of Trump’s Executive Orders Targeting Biglaw Firms

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Private business aided government power in a fashion to destroy Donald Trump’s life. … [O]ur people believe that the Justice Department was used as a weapon to destroy Trump’s campaign and his business interests and to ruin his family — that they made up bogus charges and they proceeded in a fashion that was designed to destroy him, politically and personally. I believe that. If these people involved pay a price, they got nobody but themselves to blame.

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), in comments given during an appearance on Face the Nation, where he spoke in favor of Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms — including Covington & Burling, Perkins Coie, and Paul Weiss — that represented the president’s past legal adversaries. “I think these law firms were pushing legal theories that, to me, were designed for political outcomes more than legal outcomes,” he said, according to the show’s transcript. “[I]t was politically motivated, and everybody with their fingerprints on it, I hope they pay a price.”

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