South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham incited the fury of President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters after describing the president’s decision to pardon more than 1500 Jan. 6 insurrectionists as a “mistake”—with one former prisoner slamming Graham as a “Republican in name only.

The South Carolina Republican told CNN that he “did not like” how Trump pardoned people who “beat up cops,” and suggested he would be open to curtailing the presidential pardon power.

Senator Lindsey Graham said Sunday he doesn’t approve of President Trump’s pardons for January 6 defendants who were convicted of violent crimes, particularly those who “beat up cops.” Asked during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union whether he is okay with the pardons for violent offenders,