Posted on 10/25/2020 12:06:26 AM PDT by RandFan
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs on Friday went after Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), asking why anyone would vote for the Republican lawmaker just weeks before his hotly contested election.
Dobbs lashed out at the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman for “not subpoenaing the left-wing heads of the censorships Twitter and Facebook until after the election.”
“I don’t know why anyone in the great state of South Carolina would ever vote for Lindsey Graham. It’s just outrageous,” Dobbs said. “This is the guy who keeps saying, ‘Stay tuned.’ He said he would get to the bottom of Obamagate with the Judiciary Committee, which has been a year and a half, actually longer, of absolute inert response to these pressing issues of our day.”
Dobbs noted how Graham, now one of President Trump’s most vocal supporters, was criticized by the then-Republican presidential candidate during the 2016 election.
Trump called Graham “one of the dumbest human beings I’ve ever seen” and said the senator, who was running against him at the time in the GOP primary, “is a nut job.”
“I believe that the president’s words about the senator then apply today,” Dobbs said.
“Graham has betrayed President Trump at almost every turn,” Dobbs pressed. “He has betrayed the American people and his oath of office. He’s done absolutely nothing to investigate Obamagate except to tell everyone, ‘Stay tuned,’ time and time again. Stay tuned. Senator Graham needs to be tuned out in South Carolina.”
The fierce condemnation comes after the Senate Judiciary Committee this week voted to subpoena the chief executives of Facebook and Twitter a week after both platforms limited the spread of a controversial article about Hunter Biden, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son.
Conservatives have argued the social media platforms' actions are indicative of alleged anti-conservative bias.
The panel voted 12-0 to compel the testimony of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The Democrats on the committee had boycotted the hearing over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
Graham had said he was considering holding the hearing in November, “which I think would be a great time to do it. See how the election went.”
Dobbs’s scathing segment went viral on social media, garnering more than 2 million views on Twitter.
It also attracted praise from the anti-Trump GOP group The Lincoln Project.
“The Lincoln Project rarely agrees with Lou Dobbs, but today we join in his sentiments that South Carolinians should not re-elect the spineless, do-nothing dead weight Senator Lindsey Graham,” the group wrote in a statement. “Lindsey Graham is a weak man with a weak character. While we hate to give Lou Dobbs any credibility, when he’s right, he’s right and should be commended for calling out Graham for being the pathetic swamp rat he is.”
The four-term senator is currently locked in a heated reelection battle against Democrat Jaime Harrison, who raked in more than $22 million in the first two weeks of October.
Recent polling shows a tight race in South Carolina. A survey from Morning Consult released on Thursday found Harrison leading Graham by a 2-point margin, while a poll from The New York Times and Siena College out last week showed Graham ahead by 6 points.
exactly this is how we lost the house-thinking we need pure conservatives-hows that working out
We lost the house because Ryan retired in office and threw it to Pelosi.
Voting for Graham after his repeated support of Democrats shows the GOP will never reform. This is why the GOP will continue its leftward movement as our American Heritage is flushed down the drain. In another decade Romney will be considered a Tea Party Republican and it will be precisely because of GOP voters who elected fake Republicans like Graham.
Yep, Lou, what we really need is a democrat Senate that will really get down to uncovering democrat crimes. Idiot.
Yep, what we really is a GOP chairman of the Judiciary Committee who refuses to engage Big Tech over their CURRENT suppression of the GOP vote. I won’t even get into Graham’s ongoing support of Mueller’s thugs and the Democrat coup that seized control of the Trump DOJ.
With Republicans like Graham who needs Democrats?
Alexander Hamilton’s newspaper, the NY Post, is still blocked by Twitter for posting the laptop story. Lindsay Graham, GOP judiciary chair, couldn’t care less. That’s all you need to know about him. A vote for Lindsay Graham is a vote for Joe Biden.
And IF he said that-that’s a stupid thing to say. If he wins and we lose the senate because he couldn’t swallow his pride and support a couple of these guys-his agenda is toast.
If we had a larger majority in the Senate I would gladly suffer 6 years of a Democrat to get rid of Lindseed as well as David Perdue here in GA. But we don’t so Lou Dobbs is not helping matters.
If the election is contested Graham will be the first GOP Senate chairman to abandon POTUS. Guaranteed. Fake News will use Graham to bludgeon POTUS.
Graham has played a key role in the ongoing coup. Mueller’s Democrats controlled the Trump DOJ for years due to his public threats. Frankly, he deserves to lose.
. Pretty sure I heard the message the first time. Still don't agree with it, FYI
Pinging the Admins to start pulling these duplicate posts.
He’s talking about Collins and Sasse. Sasse is certain to win and Collins is probably done no matter what she (or Trump) does, Maine is like 2 states in one and neither one likes Susie anymore.
He endorsed Graham. Graham is shepherding through his SC pick for any of you that flunked kindergarten.
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