Posted on 08/16/2021 3:35:42 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reportedly called President Biden after the 2020 election in an attempt to revive their long-standing friendship by saying his attacks on the president's son Hunter Biden had done little to appease Trump voters.
The New York Times reported that Graham reached out to President Biden in mid-November, while the senator was also publicly supporting former President Trump's attacks on the results of the election. The Times cited three people familiar with the conversation who said Graham told President Biden that targeting Hunter Biden hadn't appealed to many Trump voters in his home state.
Last year, Graham called for a special counsel to be named to investigate Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine and China, calling it a "good idea" to look into whether "any crimes were committed."
Though he was willing to work with any Republicans, sources close to the president told the Times that he saw attacks on his family as being unforgivable.
President Biden was dismissive of what he saw as Graham's attempts to have it both ways, sources told the Times.
When reached for comment by The Hill, a representative from Graham's office said they disputed the Times's reporting. His office stated that it was the president who had called Graham.
"Lindsey's been a personal disappointment because I was a personal friend of his," President Biden later said in a December interview. Despite being on different sides of the aisle, the two men had long shared a friendship as Senate colleagues, with each expressing admiration for the other.
In an interview, Graham once described the president as "as good a man as God ever created."
However, after President Biden's remarks of disappointment, Graham shot back, saying, "It's not personal and it breaks my heart that this happened, but I'm hell-bent on making sure we live in a country where everybody gets looked at when there's a reason."
There is no one in DC with larger callouses on their knees, even Camletoeho Harris, than Linda Graham.
That comment about graham in obama book is spot on
Evidence from the same paper that still insists that the Russians stole the 2016 Election.
Thanks to the SC GOP, we are stuck with Lindsey.
You need confirmation that Graham is one of the constitution killing, MAGA destroying Uniparty kingpins?!? Ridiculous. The leftists rags like the NYTs soft pedal what a treacherous POS this bastard is. He, Barr and Roberts are individually responsible for the fascists strutting about DC.
McCain, Graham, Romney, McConnell
there is not one GOP politician who is in it for
FREEDOM, the Republic, its people or its safety FIRST.
the GOP is as evil as the DNC except they PRETEND otherwise.
Lindsey came out yesterday with some lame covid statement against trump.
Now this
He is going down with Joe this Afghanistan disaster somehow
Any one of them trying to get onto a headline pretending this is business as usual is highly suspect
Hunter is now old news which is probably all he wanted to begin with leaving his laptops all over the dictatorship world crying for help out to find working forthe big guy
Biden is now hunter exponential
What did Obama say about him?
i wasn’t calling for attacks on Hunter. i was calling for the law to be followed and enforced.
there is a difference and if linda g doesn’t see it, then she must go.
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No one should have trusted Graham since he was so close to McCain and supported amnesty.
I fear you are correct with this statement. I personally know one Senator and he changed from Conservative to swamp creature serving in the Senate. He even voted with the Democrats on this recent bill. I think the only answer was shown on January 6 but it needs to be done with armaments. President Trump is right and the politicians fear his taking away their ballgame.
You read a book obama penned? The liar in chief?
The “friendship” in congress is one long standing problem when it comes to working for the people. Reaching across the aisle is past life. Cooperating with the dems is to do it their way. Congress become an evil corrupt cesspool and there is no way to redeem it, except to get rid of the stink! Send them home and bring in more Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“The former president compares Graham to a character in a spy movie “who double-crosses everyone to save his own skin.””
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