Graham encourages Donald Trump Jr. to plead the 5th

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"You just introduced yourself and plead the fifth and it's over," Graham told reporters, citing the amendment that protects citizens from self-incrimination, according to the Washington Post.

He added that Trump Jr.'s lawyer "should be an idiot" to allow him to testify again before the committee.

Graham had said a day earlier on Fox News that Trump Jr. simply had to ignore the summons.

The senator's comments came less than a week after the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee summoned Trump Jr. to testify about his communication with Russian officials.

Reuters reported that the panel's senators wish to question him about the testimony he gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 as part of his investigation into Russia's interference.

According to a transcript published by the committee, Trump Jr. said he was "aware of the periphery" of plans to expand his father's activities in Russia. But the former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified before Congress in February that Trump Jr. was much more involved than that in negotiations for the construction of a Trump tower in Moscow.

Cohen said he informed Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of the president, about 10 times on the project.

Cohen pleaded guilty last year to having lied to Congress about the construction project of a Trump tower in Moscow.

Trump Jr. testified privately before the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in 2017.

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Violated Graham's remarks on Sunday about the nonsense, saying on CNN that "suggesting that Donald Trump Jr. was above the law seems to me unjustified and contrary to the position it has taken with regard to Richard Nixon ". sure Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonMichael Bennet must find a way to stand out in the crowd Democrats need a long game. Trump should send migrants to Guantanamo MORE and others where he argued that the law applied to everyone and that it was the decision of the US Supreme Court. "

Several GOP Senators criticized the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by GOP Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.), since the summons to appear.

"The Mueller report has erased @DonaldJTrumpJr and he has already spent 27 hours testifying before Congress," Sen. Thom Tillis (R.-C.), due to be re-elected in 2020, tweeted last week. "Dems made it clear that it was policy. It's time to move on and start focusing on issues that matter to Americans. "

Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), The biggest Democrat of the Intelligence Committee, said last week that the panel had made it clear that it reserved the "right to call back witnesses if we have additional questions or inconsistencies" . has been published.