Lindsay Graham's rant about immigrant crime dismantled to his face by CNN's Jake Tapper

On Sunday morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sat by silently while CNN "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper thoroughly ripped apart claims he made about violent immigrant criminals entering the U.S. under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

With the CNN host calling out Donald Trump for labeling his 2024 presidential opponent as "mentally disabled" in Wisconsin on Saturday, the South Carolina Republican preferred to talk about an ICE report alleging an invasion of immigrants.

Blowing off Tapper's question about the Harris smear, Graham changed the subject with, "I just think the better course to take is to prosecute the case that her policies are destroying the country. "

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"They're crazy liberal, 400,000 people have been let loose in our country. 16,000 people convicted of being a rapist, 13,000 convicted murderers, and 400,000 people generally convicted of crimes were released on her watch it is not going to get better," Graham complained.

"Okay, so I saw that statistic and we dove into it, our fact fact-checker," Tapper replied while looking at documents in his hand. "That statistic is actually over decades. So some of those people you're talking about are people that came into the country during Trump. And, second of all, some of them are in prison, a lot of them are in prison, not ICE prisons, but federal prisons for their crimes."

Not disputing Tapper's reply, Graham parried, "The man who killed Laken Riley in Georgia was released by the Biden/Harris administration, on parole because they had no capacity at the border to hold him. That's not a reason to parole people."

"I promise you there have been women been raped and murdered, people have been hurt by illegal immigrants released in this country without the detention. It is a nightmare, it's crazy," he exclaimed.

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