A key ally of President Donald Trump said the White House pardoning rioters who fought with police while storming the U.S. Capitol in 2021 is “sending the wrong signal” and expressed concern about the future ramifications of issuing sweeping clemencies.

The GOP senator said Trump "technically" broke the law by firing several inspectors general, but "has the authority to do it."

Senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, criticized on Sunday the president's pardon of about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it could lead to more violence.

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday said President Donald Trump sent “the wrong signal” in pardoning Jan. 6 rioters who violently assaulted police officers.

Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think was a mistake,’ Lindsey Graham says

The republican senator also laid into former President Joe Biden for pardoning "all of his family going out the door."

S.C., said congressional Republicans who delay funding for border czar Tom Homan could "own another attack on our country."

Jan. 26 Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told NBC he is inclined to vote in favor of all of Trump’s nominees, but wants to “see how the hearing goes,” specifically citing Gabbard’s controversial visit to Syria and her previous call for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

As President Donald Trump issues a flurry of executive orders during his first week in office, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reacts to his blanket pardons for Jan. 6, 2021, rioters. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.

US Senator Lindsey Graham tells NBC News his ally President Trump shouldn't have pardoned 6 January defendants who attacked police.

Senator Graham said while President Trump had the legal authority to issue the pardons, he thought it was a mistake to pardon people who "beat up a police officer violently.... because it seems to suggest that's an okay thing to do".