Sixty-four-year-old Republican Senator Lindsey Olin Graham, who’s been feeding at the public trough for the past twenty-four years as a representative and senator, seems to be pitifully confused, not about how he feels about his gender identity as some may allege, but about how he feels about his Donald Trump identity.
Graham’s opinions about the qualifications, actions, and words of Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed “Extremely stable genius” who lost more than a billion dollars over a decade, declared multiple bankruptcies, stiffed employees, investors, and vendors, paid off sexual partners, announced his support for white supremacists, admires despots, bragged about sexually assaulting women, spouts racist tropes, and has failed to deliver on numerous campaign promises seem to be subject to change without notice.
Graham has called Trump a “loser,” a “nutjob,” and a “race-baiting xenophobic, religious bigot.”
Moreover, Senator Graham warned that if the GOP nominated Donald Trump in 2016, the Republican Party “will get destroyed – and we will deserve it.”
On the other hand, all it takes for Lindsey to pivot from anti-Trump to pro-Trump is to be invited to play golf with the man who’s wasted more than one hundred million taxpayer dollars running from the White House to his golf properties.
Graham’s most recent pivot occurred when Trump caved to Turkish President Erdogan’s demand for the U.S. to abandon its Kurdish allies in Syria after the Kurds sacrificed more than ten thousand lives to help America defeat ISIS.
Graham said that Trump’s abandonment of Kurdish allies was “the most screwed up decision I’ve ever seen.”
Five short days later, the honorable Senator Graham said that after speaking with the president, a man who arguably has lied more often to more people than any president in history, decided that he, Graham, is “increasingly optimistic this could turn out very well.”
Poor Lindsey Graham’s unfettered confusion about the man who would be president has made it increasingly clear that we never did know him.
Did we?