--- title: Donald Trump: Lindsey Grahm Wants to Look for Russia Links description: The Republican senator said he wants to examine fellow Republican President Donald Trump's business dealings for any ties to Russia canonical: https://time.com/4772661/lindsey-graham-president-donald-trump-russia-investigation/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-09T17:42:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:49:45.960Z article:section: Politics og:title: Lindsey Graham Wants to Investigate President Trump's Ties to Russia og:description: The Republican senator wants to check out Trump's business dealings og:url: https://time.com/4772661/lindsey-graham-president-donald-trump-russia-investigation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda80a28b11dff99a/6988cc7b97cdff4c096b09c0/lindsey-graham-russia-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Holds Hearing On Russia Interference In The 2016 Election og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lindsey Graham Wants to Investigate President Trump's Ties to Russia twitter:description: The Republican senator wants to check out Trump's business dealings twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda80a28b11dff99a/6988cc7b97cdff4c096b09c0/lindsey-graham-russia-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lindsey Graham Wants to Investigate President Trump's Business Dealings for Ties to Russia by [Reuters](https://time.com/author/reuters/) ## Reuters May 9, 2017 5:42 PM UTC  Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, makes an opening statement during a hearing with former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2017. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, makes an opening statement during a hearing with former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2017.Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Reuters](https://time.com/author/reuters/) ## Reuters May 9, 2017 5:42 PM UTC U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he wants to examine fellow Republican President Donald Trump’s business dealings for any ties to Russia, CNN reported on Tuesday, one day after the issue was raised at a Senate hearing. Graham said it would be helpful to see Trump’s tax records but that it was too soon to say whether he would be willing to subpoena them, according to CNN. Representatives for Graham could not be immediately reached to confirm the report or give more details. Representatives for the White House also could not be immediately reached. Graham asked former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Monday whether he had concerns about Russian ties to Trump’s business interests. Clapper said he could not comment because the issue could be a subject of an ongoing investigation. Graham on Tuesday said he intended to look into Trump’s business ties to see whether any connections exist between Russia and the Trump campaign or the president’s associates and would monitor the FBI’s investigation to see how it could affect a Senate probe. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4772661/lindsey-graham-president-donald-trump-russia-investigation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4772661/lindsey-graham-president-donald-trump-russia-investigation/"},"headline":"Lindsey Graham Wants to Investigate President Trump's Business Dealings for Ties to Russia","datePublished":"2017-05-09T17:42:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:49:45.960Z","description":"His comments came one day after the issue was raised at a Senate hearing","url":"https://time.com/4772661/lindsey-graham-president-donald-trump-russia-investigation/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda80a28b11dff99a/6988cc7b97cdff4c096b09c0/lindsey-graham-russia-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Reuters","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/reuters/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltda80a28b11dff99a/6988cc7b97cdff4c096b09c0/lindsey-graham-russia-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Holds Hearing On Russia Interference In The 2016 Election","caption":"Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Holds Hearing On Russia Interference In The 2016 Election","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4772661/lindsey-graham-president-donald-trump-russia-investigation/","name":"Lindsey Graham Wants to Investigate President Trump's Business Dealings for Ties to Russia"}}]}] ```