It’s a bit confusing, contradictory and shameful that Republican U.S. Senator and Judiciary Committee Member Lindsey Graham, after all his ranting about Russian interference, would defend Donald Trump’s collusion, and try to vilify the FBI and DOJ at the same time. But then again, Election Day is weeks away, and he seems to be frightened for the Party he puts over people and this country.
Here’s the video from his interview with Fox & Friends in late August. Graham was supposedly there to honor the late Senator John McCain—but instead, he couldn’t be more disrespectful of the patriotism in which McCain believed.
Here’s the clip, followed by the transcript.
Transcript:
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM:
“I don’t want to call [Michael Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis] a liar, but the story did not hold water…
Word of caution to the public: A lot of people are trying to convict President Trump—don’t move so fast. I’ve seen no evidence of collusion after two years. Mueller’s looking at it; we’ll see what he says. Plenty of evidence of corruption at the DOJ and FBI, (it) should be stunning. Not one Democrat seems to care...reverse the roles.
Just imagine if the Republican Party hired a foreign agent to go to Russia to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, and they used it to get a warrant, never told the court about it, that’d be a front page story everywhere. That’s pretty corrupt—when the two FBI agents, the U.S. attorney and, I mean, the DOJ lawyer say ‘it’s our job to stop Trump.’
Could you imagine what would happen if (they’d said) ‘it is our job to stop Clinton?’”
Wait. What?
With all that’s been proven via the indictments and convictions in Donald Trump’s camp, what we’ve really learned from this interview is that no matter how often he seems to be leaning towards the middle or acts like he cares about the people, Senator Lindsey Graham is a fear-based liar and opportunist—and we’ve had just about enough of both. We can do something, we can do better: Register to vote, and vote early. And on Election Day, help others get to the polls.