WATCH: Not healthy to question the competency and loyalty of US intel community, Sen. Graham says of pres.-elect's "Nazi Germany?" tweet. pic.twitter.com/FnhnLNx97i

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) January 12, 2017

Earlier today Senator Lindsey Graham lamented some of President-elect Donald Trump‘s criticisms of the intel community:

“I don’t think it is helpful for the Commander-in-Chief to question the competency, loyalty of those who are risking their lives to defend the nation, and the last thing I would say about anybody working in the intelligence community is to compare them to Nazi Germany.”

Graham is referring to this tweet:

Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017

“I can only imagine,” Graham concluded, “what we would have said if a Democrat said that.”

Watch above, via NBC.

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