Lindsey Graham: Sure Trump Slanders My Dead Friend, but "When We Golf It's Fun"

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Levin Report
Lindsey Graham: Sure Trump Slanders My Dead Friend, but “When We Golf It’s Fun”
The senator from South Carolina isn’t going to hold Trump’s attacks against John McCain against him.
By Bess Levin
June 7, 2019


For almost a year now, Donald Trump has been carrying on a one-sided feud with Senator John McCain who, as a reminder, has been dead since August. No fan of the late lawmaker when he was alive, the president has continued his attacks despite McCain being six feet under, railing against him for refusing to help repeal the Affordable Care Act, mocking his academic performance, and, in a now infamous rant at an Ohio factory, complaining that he “didn’t get a ‘thank-you’” for giving McCain “the kind of funeral that he wanted.” Most recently, the White House tried to move an entire ship, the USS John S. McCain, out of Trump’s line of vision lest the mere sight of his name result in an overseas temper tantrum, a directive Trump says he didn’t know about but appreciated nevertheless.

Most people see all this as yet further evidence that the president should be committed. But what does Senator Lindsey Graham, McCain’s closest Senate pal, think? The answer, apparently, is that he doesn’t love it, but he’s willing to let it slide because he just has so much fun playing golf with the guy who repeatedly slanders the memory of his best friend. “I don’t like what he says about John McCain,” Graham told Bloomberg in a recent interview. “But when we play golf, it’s fun. And I think he’s seen my ability to help him, that I can actually help put deals together.”

Graham’s comments may be upsetting to the McCain family, along with anyone who remembers a time before the senator from South Carolina had his backbone surgically removed, but of course, his subservience to Trump has gone on for some time now. After declaring he wouldn’t support Trump for office,__ calling the Republican candidate a “jackass,” a “kook,” “a race-baiting bigot,” and “the most flawed nominee in the history of the Republican Party,” Graham has become one of the president’s biggest and most embarrassing fans. On Democratic hopes of impeachment, he’s said, “I think it would be disposed of very quickly,” sounding like he was discussing getting rid of a dead body—something that, we assume, he would do for Trump if asked. “If it’s based on the Mueller report, or anything like that, it would be quickly disposed of,” Graham told the Hill.

In January 2017, Graham said tariffs on Mexico would an unacceptable, “big-time bad idea.” And yet Graham was the first (and only) Republican to publicly support Trump’s insane plan to hit our neighbors to the south with levies “until they up their game to help us with our border disaster.” Jamie Harrison, the associate chair of the Democratic National Committee, who’s running against Graham in South Carolina, has basically centered his campaign around the senator’s mortifying Trump sycophancy.

So, really, it‘s not entirely surprising that Graham would be happy to overlook attacks on his dead pal by the president, who’s seemingly two bad days away from tagging McCain’s grave with the word “LOSER.” But it’s cringeworthy nevertheless.

[catbyte]

1. What a despicable, pathetic, spineless, cowardly POS.

[Ohiogal]

3. You said it, catbyte

[dchill]

2. The concepts of humanity and integrity...

...are lost on Lindsey Graham. That is all.

[Irishxs]

4. Really glad Graham doesn't want to be MY friend.