Two weeks ago, Daily Kos community member Aldous J. Pennyfarthing posted some old tweets of Lindsey Graham bashing Donald Trump. Now we get to see Graham on video talking to Trump and his supporters like they were chairs. Graham wishes he could make this video disappear, yet here it is and here we are.
There was a time when Lindsey Graham was all over Trump’s ass—rather than up in. Back in 2016, the Republican South Carolina senator and the late Republican Senator John McCain fought together for American democracy. They unabashedly called out the barbaric Vladimir Putin and Russia for election interference. John McCain, a war hero, stayed the course until the day he died—and he died with dignity and respect en masse. Graham folded somewhere along the way and became a sniveling loyal servant to one of the most corrupt and illegitimate U.S. presidents this country, and this world might ever see.
In this video below, Graham rips into Trump like a wuss on steroids. He probably never thought his words would come back to haunt him. This CNN YouTube clip not only shows how much Graham hated Trump just three years ago, but it also shows what a flaming hypocrite he is. Trump didn’t change. Graham did. Below are excerpts from the transcript followed by the video clip. Graham starts off asking Trump supporters why they’re so stupid.
“I want to talk to the Trump supporters for a minute. I don’t know who you are. I don’t know why you like this guy. I think what you like about him—he appears to be strong when the rest of us are weak. He’s a very successful businessman that is going to make everything great. He’s going to take all the problems of the world and put them in a box and make your life better. That’s what he’s selling. Here’s what you are buying.”
Let’s get into some name-calling, Trump-style. Graham holds nothing back.
“[Trump] is a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women are fighting for.”
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“What Mr. Trump is doing, and I don’t think he has a clue about anything, he’s just trying to get his numbers up. He’s putting soldiers and diplomats at risk and empowering the enemy. And this “ban” if it’s enacted would take people who came to our society under siege in their own countries and basically it becomes a death sentence for them.”
While throwing in some personal digs, the South Carolina senator and now-Chair of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Graham says Trump is undercutting our war with ISIS.
“Going to a military high school, Donald, is not military service. You have never worn the uniform….”
”[Trump] is helping the enemy of this nation. He is empowering radical Islam. And if he knew anything about the world at all, you would know that most Muslims reject this ideology and they have died in, by the thousands, trying to counteract this radical ideology. You are san----slanting their sacrifice.You are marginalizing what they are trying to do to make the world a better place. Do you know how to win this war? You side with people in the faith who reject this.”
Graham ends with a zinger:
“You know how to make Donald Trump great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.”
Here’s the CNN YouTube video.
Practically everything Lindsey Graham says in this videos contradicts what he whines, preaches, and propagates today. He’s become a frightened and pathetic little Trump puppet, and it’s embarrassing to see the weasel of a man he’s become. No one but Graham truly knows how his change of heart came about. Two things we know for sure: Lindsey Graham wishes he could permanently delete videos like this, and Lindsey Graham’s day is coming. When it comes, he’ll be flying by the coattails of Trump—all the way down.