"I was really disappointed in the tone of the president and the vice president. I thought they politicized January 6," Graham told WABC on Sunday.
The January 6 insurrection, when a mob of pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol to overturn the 2020 election result, was inherently political.
Over the course of the last year, several top Republicans have changed their tune on Trump and his responsibility for the January 6 attack.
The South Carolina senator and longtime Trump ally said he talked Trump out of doing a news conference during a weekend golf match.
While some Republicans crossed over to back the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the party has been uniformly opposed to the larger social-spending package.
"He can bring people to the table who will write checks," Sen. Lindsey Graham told The Washington Post. "He has real juice."
"Donald Trump is the most consequential Republican in the entire Republican Party," Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday.
Trump has railed against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for striking a deal allowing Democratic leaders to raise the debt ceiling along party lines.
For the second time this fall, Congress is split over raising the debt ceiling. The stakes couldn't be higher, but Republicans refuse to play ball.
Growing emotional during a Fox News interview, Graham said Biden "has blood on his hands" over the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Fox News host turned on Graham over a report the Republican urged cops to use their weapons as rioters flooded into the Capitol on January 6.
"What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You've got guns. Use them," Graham told Capitol police on Jan 6 according to a Washington Post report.
Meghan McCain also called out the media, saying Graham shouldn't be treated like an expert on her family
Graham made the claim on Fox News and to The Washington Post. However, pictures his spokesman sent to The Post did not appear to show Gucci bags.
Graham received his vaccine in December and credited the shot with milder side effects when he got a breakthrough case of COVID-19 this summer.
In the memoir, Grisham lumps in Graham with "hangers-on" who sought to be a part of Trump's orbit, calling him out for trying to score "freebies."
On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump trashed Sen. Lindsey Graham. Three days later, the South Carolina lawmaker sung Trump's praises.