But Republican Senators arriving to Capitol Hill on Monday sought to distance themselves.
“Kind of at a loss for words,” Senator John Cornyn of Texas told
The Independent.
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana told
The Independent he could somewhat understand Mr Trump’s anger after Twitter owner Elon Musk
released some of the internal discussions that led to the social media giant censoring a
New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“I think the document dump demonstrates that, that pre-Musk if you took the Democratic Party and the bad and White House and turn them upside upside down and shook them, the Twitter would fall out of their pocket,” he told
The Independent. “It's clear to me that the Democratic Party and Biden will be playing a major role and what was on and was not on Twitter.”
At the same time, Mr Kennedy said that he didn’t agree with Mr Trump’s words.
“The Constitution can be amended. The Constitution can be interpreted, but the Constitution can't be suspended,” he said.
Also on Truth Social, Mr Trump later tried to claim that he never advocate for the termination of the US Constitution,
saying his calls to do so were “disinformation and lies.”
Senator Lindsey Graham also said he understood Mr Trump’s anger but told
The Independent his remarks about terminating the Constitution or laws was “very inappropriate.”
“He's frustrated because of the, you know, bias in the media and Democrats controlling Twitter and Russia, joke of investigation,” he said. “But the statement was inappropriate and I'm glad to see him clarify.”
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