Posted on 09/26/2021 11:48:04 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reportedly told former President Trump, "You f'd up your presidency" earlier this year when attempting to advise him to accept that he lost the 2020 presidential election.
This apparent bit of hard truth from the South Carolina Republican was shared on Sunday by renowned Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward while he was discussing his new book, "Peril," on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Host Chuck Todd asked Woodward and co-author and fellow Post reporter Robert Costa how they would characterize the attitude Graham and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows had towards Trump's refusal to accept the election results.
"We quote conversations between Sen. Graham and Trump in which Lindsey Graham says to Trump, 'You f'd up your presidency' at one point just a couple of months ago," Woodward said.
Woodward added that Trump hung up on Graham and then called him back a day later, at which point Graham said to Trump, "I would have hung up too."
"The core conclusion that Graham has is you lost a close election. Face it," said Woodward.
The Hill has reached out to Graham's office for comment.
Todd asked Costa if Trump believes he lost the election, noting that the authors quoted Trump as saying that if he does not continue fighting the election results, then he will lose his base of supporters.
"I've learned covering President Trump and covering politics, it doesn't really matter sometimes what people think — it's what they do — and to assume nothing," Costa said.
"In 2015, a lot of people said Donald Trump won't run. He'll never win once he announced in 2016. Well, he won and lost in 2020. He wants power back, our reporting in the book shows," Costa continued. "He's out there with this Churchillian-type language — 'We'll never surrender. We'll never give in' — whipping up thousands of people across the country."
1) No, he didn’t.
2) What happened in those 4 years involved a whole bunch of people working tirelessly to eff up Trump’s presidency. Graham was one of those people.
PDJT wouldn’t play by their rules, wouldn’t tolerate their corruption, wouldn’t sustain their agenda, so the Swamp stabbed him in the back.
LG has f’d up the Senate for decades.
Grahamnesty is, and has been, doing his level best to f up this great nation.
He’s a bought and sold, complicit tool.
I have deep seeded hatred for Lynda and not a spec of respect.
SLEEZEBAG THAT HANNIITY STILL LOVES
THEY HAVE ALL F ED UP!
Story doesn’t sense. Graham at one point tweeted that he was donating 100k to the legal team after Nov. 3rd. If he did or didn’t donate, IDK.
Graham is the absolute definition of “all talk no action”. He is as useless as a car alarm
Every single thing that I read about Woodward’s book, and his interviews since it came out, simply reinforces my prior conviction that there is literally NOTHING that he won’t do to smear conservatives, patriots and Donald J. Trump. The man (Woodward) is a cancer upon our nation, and has been since the Watergate scandal. I won’t be disappointed when he drops dead.
True, but he hired Milley and didn;t fire Wray et al!! Love Trump but the fact he didn;t dispatch the upper echelons of the deep state are on him! I hope he gets a second chance!
I never understood why Trump trusted that lowlife, backstabbing, ass.
Graham should crawl back into the bottom of an outhouse from where he came.
woodward is a hack, and linda is a scumbag. I have zero intentions of reading the book. And mister 1% can go the way of mccaniac.
He didn’t understant the RINO game of being a happy loser and getting invited to all the DC cocktail parties.
If Lindsey did in fact say this Trump shouldn’t let him near Trump ever again
Lindsey Who?
Let’s hope that someone is around to video the next time Trump runs into Graham.
Trump just needed to act normal during the election year. He didn’t and he alienated a lot of voters. That’s why he lost.
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