Lindsey Graham wanted Jan. 6 Capitol attackers shot in the head

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A former Washington, D.C., police officer who was nearly killed on Jan. 6 claims South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told cops they should have killed Donald Trump loyalists who raided the U.S. Capitol. “You guys should have shot them all in the head,” officer Michael Fanone recalls Graham telling him in a new book obtained by Politico. Graham was clearly upset the day Trump supporters interrupted the certification of the 2020 election in which President Joe Biden defeated the incumbent. “All I can say is count me out!” Graham said on the Senate floor following the invasion. “Enough is enough.” Fanone, who was dragged into a sea of MAGA assailants while defending the Capitol, was beaten by a crowd where he said he heard at least one rioter say “kill him with his own gun.” His book “Hold the Line” details events surrounding that experience, which also resulted in a Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt, being fatally shot. “We gave you guys guns, and you should have used them,” Fanone recalls Graham saying.