Posted on 12/08/2025 2:47:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Country singer John Rich recounts a private dinner with the president, where Trump questioned why people at his rallies were booing vaccines, and how Sen. Lindsey Graham responded to his answer, during a Tomi Lahren interview.
I mean, Lindsey Graham is not a conservative. Oh, I can't stand him. He's a warmonger. He's one of the most disgusting people I have ever had the displeasure of sitting across a table from. He called me a conspiracy theorist in front of the President of the United States, yelling at me across the table, swishing his wine around, his third glass of Chardonnay.
And Tomi, I tore his arm off and beat him in the head with it right in front of the President.
TOMI LAHREN: What was Trump's reaction to that, by the way, because he likes Lindsey Graham, and I don't really get it.
JOHN RICH: He said, "Got through." We were talking about the vaccine, 'cause Trump had asked me why are people booing me at my rallies when I bring up the vaccines? That's a heavy-duty question. Would you want him asking you that? And you'd tell him the truth?
So I did. That's when Lindsey Graham come up out of his chair. "If you listen to conspiracy theorists like John Rich, Mr. President, Democrats are gonna take credit for what you did, beat you in the next election with it."
I looked over at Lindsey Graham and said, "Do not interrupt me when I'm speaking. Do you understand me?" He looked at me like that. He said, "I didn't mean to disrespect." But you did.
And I finished telling the President. I...
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“swishing his wine around...”
They say that’s not ALL he ‘swishes around’.
I lost one of my better friends, and one of the finest scientists in the world when Val Geist got the jab. He was a diabetic. The back pressure from his heart trying to oxygenate his gasping cells blew out his aorta. The idiot Canadian doctors didn’t have a clue and didn’t do an autopsy.
Val was immensely valuable to me, mentioning our project by name in his keynote speeches when I can’t get even a boo out of our local academics. He was one of the few people in the world I could call and brainstorm an hypothesis about pre-colonial land management.
No, I’m not forgiving that one very easily Mr. President. I know you meant well, but you trusted the professionals and they abused you.
My sympathies to you. Nothing replaces a good friend.
The President should just stop bringing it up out of context. The less said by anyone about that Covid era, the better. Mistakes were made.
John Rich and Donald Trump Jr. have the same opinion of Lindsey Graham. They know he’s a poisonous snake in the grass.
The sooner the good people of South Carolina ditch this neo-con slime-ball, the better.
Are you listening, Sean Hannity?
It is interesting that Trump had no clue. The only thing that saved Trump from the vax being used against him is the rats and all their media allies pushed them hard.
I think he’s still impressed with the fact that his Administration was able to produce and provide a vaccine (of any type) against this little known disease, in only a few months. He could not ignore it, a president is expected to act when there is a national health emergency. Asap!
Perhaps his pride in that expedited research prevents him from seeing the other side of the coin, the unwanted, devastating, and in some cases life changing side effects for many people. This was an inadvertent outcome, certainly not malicious. I don’t believe hurting vaccine recipients would ever have been President Trumps conscious intention.
I am truly surprised that no one has ever told President Trump the truth about that whole Covid vaccine mess. I understand that Fauci and Birx wouldn’t, but he’s got other friends, including RFK, Jr., who knows it was bad news. I wonder if Susan Wiles keeps too many people away from him.
Out of touch is the operative word...drop him in a Grocery store and he would be lost as a goose.
I think Trump got scammed on his vaccine actions. Its reported that he’s germophobic. He’s also someone who leans forward in solving problems. I think that fear and his go do it tendency was used against him to motivate an effort faster then it was prudent to do. Drug development is not like a building project. Throwing more money and people at it won’t change its speed much. They’re procedures that must be done for safety’s sake and short circuiting them for speed of development only increases risk. Risk goes up exponentially! The pharmaceutical companies were happy to take the great wads cash particularly sense they were immune from risk due EUAs. He should have offered them contracts like what Dupont go for A bomb development. One dollar profit, government pays for development. If he had done that we would have quickly seen if the pharmaceutical companies thought the epidemic was an existential event. He didn’t. It’s history now and he needs to realize he was scammed and learn from the experience.
Yes. He needs to learn from that experience. however sincere it was intended. Maybe someone close to him, like one of his sons can explain it to him. I could see either Eric or Barron taking this bold step.
Trump was all about calling it the flu. He dismissed it for a few weeks.
He then went away for a weekend.
He came back that next Monday morning like he had seen a ghost. Or…one of the Dicken’s ghosts.
He waltzed up to the microphone and shut everything down.
I have wondered who got to him that weekend and what they told him. Because he changed his tune so dramatically and so fast, it was kind of unsettling.
I worry that Don Jr. still appears to be tight with Tucker.
Maybe Trump should listen to the responses when he brings up AG Bondi.
Don, it’s pretty simple, my body, my rules.
I don’t want illegal alien particles jumping my fence and swimming around in my bloodstream. Does that help?
And I don’t plan to impose a tariff on them either. No free trade between my body and Big Chinese Pharma.
“I don’t believe hurting vaccine recipients would ever have been President Trumps conscious intention.”
He did push it but his promotion of the vaccine did not give the drug companies the permission or encouragement to peddle a defective product.
I’m sorry for your friend.
They used Fauci and his GOF creation with Peter Daszak and Ralph Baric which they migrated from Chapel Hill NC to Canada and then to Wuhan.
It was war-gamed with Event 201 in NYC in October 2019 and (conveniently for them) got out and did exactly what was needed to shut President Trump down and attempt a ‘great reset’ of the world as imagined by the WEF.
The idea that "Nature" is self-optimizing, but only without human influence, is a catastrophe in the making. How anyone could believe that "survival of the fittest" as an idea ends up as anything other than monoculture is beyond me, much less that it could function as the supposed engine of biodiversity.
Aboriginal PEOPLE have always fostered biodiversity through managed disturbance, if only because they depend upon having all the resources necessary to sustain life within walking distance. The agro-urbane at the top of our "civilized" heap have no concept for how any of that works.
MAJOR mistakes were made.
And we're still paying for it, in more ways than one.
Good for John Rich. I would have told the President the same thing.
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