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Republican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial
The Hill ^ | 12 18 2019 | Rebecca Klar

Posted on 12/18/2019 8:43:32 PM PST by yesthatjallen

A Republican group is launching a new ad targeting Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) after the House on Wednesday voted in favor of impeaching President Trump.

The new Republicans for the Rule of Law ad quotes Graham pushing the Senate to allow witness testimony during the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, the group announced Wednesday.

“Once upon a time Lindsey Graham was in favor of a fair impeachment trial,” a narrator says in the 30-second ad.

It then cuts to a clip of Graham during the time of Clinton’s impeachment, telling reporters: “In every trial that there has ever been in the Senate regarding impeachment, witnesses were called. When you have a witness telling you about what they were doing and why, it’s the difference between getting the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”

“Lindsey Graham, the rules of a fair trial haven't changed, why have you?" the ad narrator continues. "Let the witnesses testify."

Graham said Wednesday that he will reject attempts to call witnesses during Trump’s Senate trial, and on Sunday he said he is ready to vote and doesn’t need to hear from any witnesses.

The ad will run on digital platforms and air as a commercial during Fox’s “Fox and Friends” and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday in D.C. It will also run on “Morning Joe” in New York City.

SNIP

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: billkristol; graham; impeachment; lindseygraham; mythmaking; nevertrumpers; southcarolina; theshill; trump
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1 posted on 12/18/2019 8:43:32 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

“Republicans for the Rule of Law” - Who dat?

Another Soros front?

Mitt Romney and the ghost of John McCain?


2 posted on 12/18/2019 8:50:37 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: yesthatjallen

Does not sound like “Republican” group to me.


3 posted on 12/18/2019 8:51:49 PM PST by madison10
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To: yesthatjallen

When you stand for nothing, you are vulnerable to anything. But this one is out of graham’s hands. Executive Privilege still stands in a senate trial. Sure they can go to court, but I think you need to have real evidence to breach EP. And hearsay is not it.


4 posted on 12/18/2019 8:52:34 PM PST by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: a fool in paradise

https://www.ruleoflawrepublicans.com/about-us/

Looks like a bunch of old, white guys that most liberals want extinct.


5 posted on 12/18/2019 8:55:38 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: a fool in paradise

SorosiKKKans.


6 posted on 12/18/2019 8:57:53 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Chris Gagin:

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2018/07/southeast_ohio_republican_part.html

Southeast Ohio Republican Party leader resigns over Trump-Putin meeting
Updated Jan 30, 2019;Posted Jul 16, 2018


Does this guy know that the Trump-Putin meeting is not part of this impeachment?


7 posted on 12/18/2019 9:03:05 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: yesthatjallen

Probably never-Trumpers.


8 posted on 12/18/2019 9:03:31 PM PST by Rocky
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Chris Fried is a Harvard Law faculty member who thought Scalia was “radically conservative”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fried


9 posted on 12/18/2019 9:06:55 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: yesthatjallen

More traitors.


10 posted on 12/18/2019 9:08:06 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Slade Gorton is the last Senator from Washington State in 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slade_Gorton


11 posted on 12/18/2019 9:09:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Phil Heimlich, his grandparents founded Arthur Murray dance studios

https://catholicspeakers.com/profiles/phil-heimlich


12 posted on 12/18/2019 9:12:49 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: Rocky

card carrying never trumpers:

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/19/pence-friend-explains-why-hes-part-anti-trump-group-criticizing-pence/2374812001/

Pence friend explains why he’s part of an anti-Trump group criticizing the vice president
Maureen Groppe, Indianapolis StarPublished 1:15 p.m. ET Sept. 19, 2019 | Updated 1:31 p.m

anti-Trump group that Rusthoven is part of, Republicans for the Rule of law, accuses Pence of hypocrisy for not objecting to foreign governments’ spending at Trump hotels after having criticized the Clinton Foundation for accepting donations from foreign governments when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.

Pence’s top aide dismissed the ad and the group, saying the only constituency for the “Never Trump” Republicans is the liberal media.

“Without free promotion by anti-Trump press, no one would even know they still existed,” chief of staff Marc Short said about the ad that aired Thursday on MSNBC and is running in social media.

Republicans for the Rule of Law is directed by Bill Kristol, a conservative commentator who worked for Vice President Dan Quayle but is a vocal critic of Trump and Pence.


13 posted on 12/18/2019 9:21:33 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: a fool in paradise

He turns 92 next month. He’s obviously senile if a part of this group of coup plotter fanatics.


14 posted on 12/18/2019 9:22:47 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Bill Kristol pulls the strings


15 posted on 12/18/2019 9:23:30 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: a fool in paradise

When was Kristol ever a Conservative ? 30 years ago ? He mouths every Demonrat talking point out of the book. A jealous, hatemongering nutjob.


16 posted on 12/18/2019 9:25:12 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: a fool in paradise
Yep.

https://www.ruleoflawrepublicans.com/about-us/

Republicans for the Rule of Law is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit and a project of Defending Democracy Together.

https://www.defendingdemocracytogether.org/about-us/


17 posted on 12/18/2019 9:39:50 PM PST by maggief
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Kristol was never conservative, at best he was a neocon Bush League Republican.


18 posted on 12/18/2019 9:40:26 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: maggief

Question authority.

The Shill should be more up front about the bias of these “Republicans” who are concern trolling. They don’t care what the issue is, they want Trump and Pence out of office.


19 posted on 12/18/2019 9:42:17 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: yesthatjallen

Names meaning nothing


20 posted on 12/18/2019 9:55:35 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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