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BOOK: Lindsey Graham told Trump he 'f'd up' the presidency
The Hill ^ | 09/26/21 11:42 AM EDT | BY JOSEPH CHOI

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."


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: books; chat; chatforum; costa; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; fakenews; fakequote; gopestablishment; graham; grahamnesty; linda; lindagraham; lindseygraham; mediawingofthednc; nevertrumpers; notnews; partisanmediashills; peril; presstitutes; rino; rinos; smearmachine; southcarolina; tds; uniparty; woodward
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To: RandFan

Graham is two faced

And Woodward is a leftist liar who works for the biggest propaganda publication of all time.

Kind of makes this a non-story.


21 posted on 09/26/2021 12:18:10 PM PDT by Revel
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To: RandFan

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) REPORTEDLY told President Trump....

Not a fan of linzy “gimme 5 bucks” gram but woodward has zero credibility and even less corroboration.


22 posted on 09/26/2021 12:18:58 PM PDT by Ceebass (USA RIP 1776-2021)
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To: rexthecat

Oh boy. Incoming. Duck!


23 posted on 09/26/2021 12:19:27 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: RandFan

Exposing the election fraud that occurred is an absolute necessity or all elections from this point forward will be stolen by the globalists.

Exposing it probably won’t change the last election, but it will definitely change the next.


24 posted on 09/26/2021 12:19:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Ceebass

Very good point.


25 posted on 09/26/2021 12:20:00 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: RandFan

Miss Lindsey is such a pearl clutching backstabber who doesn’t know whether to crap or wind her watch since her butt buddy, Songbird, croaked.


26 posted on 09/26/2021 12:20:24 PM PDT by bimboeruption (Trump = The best President since Washington. )
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To: rexthecat

Honestly in important ways I think Trump should’ve been “Trump” in that election year, and “normal” BEFORE the COVID hit the fan.


27 posted on 09/26/2021 12:21:29 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: RandFan

How often are we going to have to hear about Woodward and is latest book?


28 posted on 09/26/2021 12:22:20 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: RandFan

Well he did hire and take advice from traitors so it’s partially true.


29 posted on 09/26/2021 12:22:23 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: rexthecat
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.

If you truly believe that I have a bridge to sell you, toll booths and all.

30 posted on 09/26/2021 12:23:47 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: BenLurkin
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.

BINGO.

The Democrat Party Cabal (DPC) including RINOs stole the election. Of course, all socialist/communist Democrats (and all like-minded RINOs) will strenuously protest that the 2020 election was the most reliable and secure in U.S. history. My response to that is even the leftist Time Magazine published an article in March 2021 that details and publicly brags about how the DPC (including RINOs) "Saved" the 2020 election. Actually, the more accurate word is "Stole" the 2020 election but the leftist Democrats always toy with words to deceive the public.

If you haven't read the far-left Time Magazine article from March 2021, you must read it. Just remember that a far-left "journalist" wrote that article so it's filled with false claims that Trump was destroying the U.S. and democracy, that Trump pushed the U.S. to the brink of catastrophe, and that Trump tried to steal the election. So if you ignore all the far-left nonsense in that Time article, you will learn a good amount about how the DPC stole the 2020 election.

That far-left Time Magazine article is as close as you'll get to the socialist/communist DPC admitting it stole the election. The liberal Time author says that in 2019, the DPC decided it could foresee the future and that Trump would intentionally destroy the 2020 election, so the DPC had to immediately engage in a vast left-wing/RINO "conspiracy" to steal (oops, sorry, "save") the 2020 election ... thus "Saving" democracy, capitalism, apple pie, and the United States.

Read the article. The title is, "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election." Without actually using the term "Steal" the election, the DPC admits it stole the 2020 election. Trust me: Read it.

31 posted on 09/26/2021 12:29:22 PM PDT by gw-ington (Democrat policies are obviously weakening America, so vote conservative.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

They’ve sent in the liar Bob Woodward to do their dirty work. Does anyone believe what he writes?


32 posted on 09/26/2021 12:30:40 PM PDT by Hildy (In an unforgiving world, only the shameless survive.)
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To: RandFan
Screw you, nancy boi. Even though Pres. Trump could have curtailed his tweets somewhat IMO, he is THE most successful president in all my political years that goes back to mid '70s.

Aside from his economic policies that brought back jobs/companies and his international policies of not bowing while exerting US strength, he restored pride in America and confidence in our Allies. The USA was once again the leader of the free world.

BTW Linda, how many people show up at your gatherings? Trump just had THOUSANDS again just yesterday. I read many more were outside the venue. And yes Linda, the election WAS stolen. Five swing States shut down about the same time, and magically find Biden in the lead when they re-open? Puhlease girly-boi.

33 posted on 09/26/2021 12:31:20 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: RandFan

Deep State Bob Woodward screwed up journalism.


34 posted on 09/26/2021 12:32:30 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: RandFan

Bob Woodward is slime.

Left wing, deep state slime.


35 posted on 09/26/2021 12:33:45 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: RandFan
Graham never followed through on any of his promises to hold hearings when he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Never.

-PJ

36 posted on 09/26/2021 12:34:14 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: RandFan
"This apparent bit of hard truth from the South Carolina Republican was shared on Sunday by renowned Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward "

PUKE

37 posted on 09/26/2021 12:35:21 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: ronnie raygun
"SLEEZEBAG THAT HANNIITY STILL LOVES"

That and guests Carl Rove and assorted Rinos and his repeated stupidity about 99.9% of FBI agents are the good guys, is why I stopped watching a couple years back. Plus, he interrupts his good guests while making their point.

38 posted on 09/26/2021 12:41:20 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: RandFan
After four years of nothing but the Russia, Russia hoax perpetrated by The Hill and other left wing media rags, they now are telling us that elections are fair and honest.

The one defining moment that occurred on 11/3/2020 is that the American people now know without any doubt, that USA elections are a lie.

The people no longer elect their representatives. Our leaders are selected by foreign and domestic oligarchs.

39 posted on 09/26/2021 12:47:17 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: rexthecat

Alienated voters? If that were true they wouldn’t have had to massively cheat! He got more votes than any president, which is why they had to over cheat to get Biden to win. If you are right, why are they standing in the way of an audit in all the contested states?


40 posted on 09/26/2021 1:00:59 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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