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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Lindsey Graham Lost His Way
?resize=900,600&w=450Lindsey Graham and Donald Trump were born nine years and one month apart. Trump came first, but when they appear side by side, as they often do these days, the men look about the same age. On November 6th, in the East Room of the White House, the president held an event to mark the record number of federal judges his administration has appointed, and Graham was there, having played a critical role in the achievement as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trumps staff had scheduled the event in part to shift focus from the House impeachment investigation, to remind any wobbly Republicans of the reason theyd held their noses and voted for the guy in the first place.
Over the course of his three terms representing South Carolina in the Senate, Graham had become predominantly known for two things: extreme hawkishness on foreign policy, following the lead of his close friend and mentor, the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, and a bipartisan streak that resulted in high-profile attempts to cut big deals on issues like immigration reform and climate change. A former senior staffer for a Democratic senator who has worked alongside Graham on bipartisan legislation tells me, Like John McCain, he was a conservative Republican, but it was always worth asking where he was going to be on a particular issue, because he wasnt completely beholden to party orthodoxy. Hed often be way out ahead of his staff, negotiating on the Senate floor unbeknownst to them, and they would be playing catch-up.
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Like much of the GOP establishment, Graham had opposed Trump during the 2015 primary, but he spoke out more forcefully than most, and in the general election, he wrote in third-party candidate Evan McMullin. Which has made his subsequent capitulation all the more breathtaking, even in the context of a modern Republican Party completely transformed into the party of Trump. In the past few months alone, in advance of a likely Senate impeachment trial, Graham has doubled down on the presidents inflammatory characterization of the House inquiry, calling it a lynching in every sense; preemptively announced he wouldnt be reading any of the transcripts of deposed House witnesses, though hell be a juror in the trial, telling reporters hed written the whole process off?.?.?.?this is a bunch of B.S.; and most recently, requested documents for a Judiciary Committee investigation into the entirely baseless claims that Trumps leading 2020 rival, Joe Biden, pressured the government of Ukraine to fire its lead prosecutor in an effort to help his son Hunter.
Shortly after Grahams office requested documents pertaining to the Biden investigation, a 2016 video surfaced in which Graham paid heartfelt tribute to the former vice president, calling him as good a man as God ever created and saying, If you cant admire Joe Biden as a person?.?.?.?you need to do some self-evaluation. It felt like a taped confession to a future crime, as if the old Graham, the Graham who knew better, had put his soul in a time capsule in order to shame his craven Trump-era self. Here was video evidence of Grahams willingness to protect a man he knows to be corrupt by falsely accusing a friend of corruption. By that point, though, Grahams debasement had been so thoroughly realized, the hypocrisy on display barely made an impact.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/lindsey-graham-senate-trump-928948/
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How Lindsey Graham Lost His Way (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jan 2020
OP
Faux pas
(14,700 posts)1. Kickin'
bdamomma
(63,941 posts)2. K&R
nt
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)3. He is right where he FUCKING belongs. EAT DUMPS SHIT LOW DOWN LINNY. nt
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)4. Leningrad Lindsey "lost his way" when he turned left, instead of right, getting off Vlad's elevator.
He wasn't really lost, but that is his story and he is sticking with it.
He went to suite 317, as instructed, and knocked. The most handsome young man he had ever seen in his life answered the door. The young man DID appear to be awfully young. But he was SO handsome. Lindy only paused a second, then went in.
Now Vlad HAS IT ALL on video.
Kompromat.
Well, SOME PEOPLE are saying...
There is NO explaining why Leni Lindy flipped so completely and so enthusiastically, OTHER than Kompromat.