Lindsey Graham: Appoint special counsel to investigate 'bureaucratic coup' against Trump

[DonViejo]

By Tom Hamburger
September 23 at 2:37 PM

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday he believes “a bureaucratic coup” led by enemies of President Trump is taking place at the Justice Department, and the senator asked that a new special counsel be appointed to investigate.

Graham, a veteran member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the comments on “Fox News Sunday” in response to questions about a report that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein suggested secretly recording Trump and possibly using the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office.

Graham said he didn’t favor firing Rosenstein, who has denied the report and said he never advocated for removal of the president. “He shouldn’t fire Rosenstein unless you believe Rosenstein’s lying,” Graham said.

Instead, the senator from South Carolina pointed his finger at others in the department who he said have “tried to destroy this president.” He specifically referred to former FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.

McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was fired after being accused of making an unauthorized disclosure to the news media. Strzok, who helped lead the FBI inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, lost his job after officials discovered he had been exchanging anti-Trump text messages in 2016 with Page, a lawyer, who has also left the department.

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[Pachamama]

1. How soon before its revealed by the Mueller Russia investigation that Lindsay Graham was one of many

...members of the Senate and Congress that have been blackmailed with "kompromat" if they didn't protect the crimes of Trump and the GOP?

Seriously....WTF Lindsay Graham? Who is this guy?

[YessirAtsaFact]

2. He's feeding Trump's "Deep State" paranoia

More sucking up to the OrangeTurd

[Achilleaze]

3. "Persecute American patriots working against russian agents" - Lindsey G (KGOP)

republicans are out in full force supporting their russian overlords, and pissing on patriotic Americans.

[dalton99a]

4. Lindsey has gone full Russian

now that McCain is dead

[duforsure]

5. This only shows

Graham has probably done something very bad for them to have him in this position now defending trump and putin all the time.

[Paladin]

6. Is Lindsey Graham now starting each day by pissing on John McCain's grave?

It's been a while since a public servant fell from grace so far, so fast, and in such a brazenly public fashion.

[oasis]

7. Somebody please convince me the Russians aren't blackmailing Graham.

[spanone]

8. Seems a bit late in life for lindsey to start a drug habit, but it happens...

[Turbineguy]

9. That Special Counsel

could have her/his own bureaucracy.

[COLGATE4]

10. Lindsey is pushing really hard for the job of

Attorney General once TOADUS decides to get up enough guts to fire Sessions. It may be he's genuinely scared about his reelection prospects or it may be that he just wants to glory of being Dumpy's A.G.