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‘Short and not especially sweet’: Lindsey Graham called Biden over Trump support
Manchester Guardian ^ | Mon 16 Aug 2021 07.51 EDT | Martin Pengelly

Posted on 08/17/2021 4:33:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The South Carolina Republican senator Lindsey Graham called Joe Biden after his victory over Donald Trump to tell the president he only joined attacks on his son, Hunter Biden, as a “bare minimum” to satisfy Trump supporters.

The detail was included in a lengthy profile of Graham and his Washington maneuvers published by the New York Times. It said the call, intended to “revive a friendship damaged by [Graham’s] call for a special prosecutor to investigate the overseas business dealings” of Hunter Biden, was “short, and not especially sweet”. […]

Once Trump did represent the Republican party as its nominee for president, Graham executed what the former Clinton aide turned historian Sidney Blumenthal has called a “reverse ferret”, to become one of Trump’s most fervent supporters and frequent golf partner.

But Graham did so as a long-term friend of Biden, once saying: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, then you got a problem. You need to do some self-evaluation. ’Cause what’s not to like?”

To the Bidens, returning Graham’s gaze, it seems the answer is now “quite a lot”.

In February the first lady told CNN: “I don’t know what happened to Lindsey. We used to be great friends. I mean, we traveled together with the [Senate] foreign relations committee, we had dinner, you know … And now he’s changed.” …

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: biden; hunterbiden; lindagraham; tds
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1 posted on 08/17/2021 4:33:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Most of the Senate is corrupt, compromised and evil. All the Demonrats and most of the Republicans.


2 posted on 08/17/2021 4:43:24 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Olog-hai

At least McCain never pretended to like Trump.


3 posted on 08/17/2021 4:44:05 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Olog-hai
Maybe Linda should have taken the attacks on Hunter seriously. Do you remember that boat load of money that The Big Guy facilitated for Hunter? Paybacks are a bitch. Today, the CCP is holding live-fire exercises off of Taiwan because of "US-Taiwan collusion." (Their words, not mine.)

The payback: Biden with the help of the deep state, intentionally eff'd up Afghanistan. That puts us in a situation where no one wants to respond to the CCP. The CCP moves on Taiwan.

If China takes Taiwan, they can put a strangle hold on the US economy. We are entirely too reliant on Taiwan for tech components and products.

Linda, just like Xiden, is AMERICA LAST.

4 posted on 08/17/2021 4:44:49 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Olog-hai
The RINOs at all levels of government, especially in the state legislatures who gave the Steal to Potato Joe, have blood on their hands if any Americans are murdered by the Taliban in the coming months.

Stolen elections have consequences.

RINOs put their petty hatred of Trump above love of country.

5 posted on 08/17/2021 4:50:08 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Olog-hai

“If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, then you got a problem. You need to do some self-evaluation. ’Cause what’s not to like?”

South Carolina can do a lot better.


6 posted on 08/17/2021 4:53:45 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Blame Biden)
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To: ConservativeInPA

If China takes Taiwan, they can put a strangle hold on the US economy. We are entirely too reliant on Taiwan for tech components and products.

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Yep.

Trump tried to bring the manufacturing of such products back to the United States. Too many Democrats and RINOs tried to block everything he did. Our national security has been greatly compromised because of them.


7 posted on 08/17/2021 4:58:10 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Olog-hai

Why anyone pays any attention to this snake I’ll never know...


8 posted on 08/17/2021 4:58:22 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: HandBasketHell

What the RINOs really hate trump for was he cut out their ability to cut their deals with the democommies. They lost their power in the goodies parceling. Recall when trump had piglosi and scummer up to the White House to debate on a budget issue and he had the tv people there to broadcast it. They ran like stuck pigs because the light was to be shined on their BS.


9 posted on 08/17/2021 4:58:48 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: HandBasketHell
RINOs by definition do not love their country.

Their old name, during the Eisenhower years, was “New Republicans”. One of Eisenhower’s cabinet members, a man called Arthur Larson, wrote a book called A Republican Looks At His Party (in mimicry of Democrat Dean Acheson’s book A Democrat Looks At His Party) wrote stuff like this:
If a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.
There is no such thing as any kind of “job…to meet the needs of the people” that the private sector cannot do. The ideology behind this is all about seizing power.
10 posted on 08/17/2021 4:59:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: rockrr

Because of the mischief he engages in. That mischief does affect us.


11 posted on 08/17/2021 5:00:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Lindsay is loud lately. What’s tge deal there?


12 posted on 08/17/2021 5:00:50 AM PDT by stanne
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To: cdcdawg; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

Either Linda Graham is completely oblivious to the fact that Plugs is a vile, smarmy, pathological liar, sleazy, corrupt and evil degenerate who is a sex predator and molests children without an ounce of shame or Linda is in on it and engages in similar behavior.

Which one is it ?


13 posted on 08/17/2021 5:01:37 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“Linda is in on it and engages in similar behavior”

That one.


14 posted on 08/17/2021 5:02:57 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Blame Biden)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Since that is not necessarily a false dilemma, I would say the latter.


15 posted on 08/17/2021 5:03:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: cdcdawg

“South Carolina can do a lot better.”

I’m in NC. We have Tillis and Burr.


16 posted on 08/17/2021 5:07:11 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: Olog-hai

Arthur Larson, the Under Secretary of Labor, was typical of the Socialist (Derp State) scum infesting the federal government, for which Eisenhower not only did not clean up, but helped proliferate.

From his own Wikipedia page: “He supported a union shop to compel workers into a labor union as “a case of the individual ... having to conform to the will of the majority.”

This vile individual was a totalitarian of the worst sort.


17 posted on 08/17/2021 5:07:21 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: ryderann

“We have Tillis and Burr.”

That is a little bit depressing. We have Warnock and Ossoff.


18 posted on 08/17/2021 5:14:12 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Blame Biden)
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To: cdcdawg

Most likely fraudulently put in there.


19 posted on 08/17/2021 5:15:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I wouldn’t know his name if not for reading The Conscience of a Conservative. So much history gets buried, particularly from back then.
20 posted on 08/17/2021 5:16:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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