Graham: Mueller Probe Isn't Illegal, But DOJ and FBI 'Were In The Tank For Clinton'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Matt Shuham

September 2, 2018 9:56 am

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[CincyDem]

1. Oh yeah - that makes sense.

The most effective law enforcement agency in the world and the most focused group of lawyers in the world...we in the tank for Clinton and yet Trump still won.

Every f'ing time this bullchit gets tossed up in the air, someone needs to ask "so with all that horsepower on Clinton's side, how did Trump win...who was on his side to balance it all out in his favor???"

These guys are such asshats.

[GusBob]

3. Conversely, it was Clinton or the Russians

And the Russians won, despite our law enforcement

[forgotmylogin]

39. I guess being "in the tank" never means there's a legitimate reason.

All the Rs are "in the tank" for Trump, so this statement is meaningless.

[lark]

2. Lying Lindsey is scared shitless of info Russians have on him.

drumpf has dredged it up, or had it handed to him by PUtin more likely, and he's rubbed it in Graham's face that he will start releasing it to the public if LIndsey doesn't turn on the Mueller probe and this is what he's doing as a result of the blackmail.

[jayschool2013]

18. First

Lindsey needs to stop lying to himself.

Then he can come clean with the rest of us.

[PatSeg]

19. It must be some really good shit

as Graham has changed his tune dramatically since "I think he is a kook. I think he is crazy. I think he is unfit for office". For awhile there, he was refreshingly outspoken about Donald Trump and now they are BFF.

Putin is really good at what he does.

[SHRED]

29. I think he's "in the closet" still

[CrispyQ]

37. It's got to be more than that, I would think, to make a 180 like he's done?

Don't we all suspect he's gay, so what's the big deal? Or course, I'm from CO, where we voted in an openly gay rep & now he's running for gov, so maybe in SC it's a lot different.

This is gold if you have the six minutes to watch. He starts with some jabs at HRC, but then he turns it full on the GOP. His comment about Ted Cruz is the funniest political joke ever.

[PatSeg]

49. That's what I was thinking

I kind of figured that it was an open secret that Lindsey Graham was gay and that most people really don't care all that much.

That clip is hilarious. He was a really funny guy until he moved to the Trump camp. For awhile there, I was actually liking him in spite of his politics.

Whatever he's hiding, it WILL come out eventually. He will be one of many republicans who will be exposed. You can feel the fear and tension in the air in DC, a day of reckoning is coming.

[oberliner]

68. What a jackass

His comment about Obama was completely uncalled for.

[Dave Starsky]

70. I think it has something more to do with age than gender.

If you catch my drift.

And I think you do.

[blue cat]

77. He's like Kevin Spacey's character in House of Cards

Trying to gain power anyway he can, and my guess he is like Kevin Spacey in real life...just a guess.

[CatMor]

34. Lindsey had a invite to Mar-A-Lago to play golf ....

and after that he started praising and backing trump. Must be when trump told him or showed him the dirt he had on him. Of course this is speculation on my part but sounds plausible. Lindsey would rather save his own ass than save our country that he claims to love so much.

[PatSeg]

50. Makes sense to me

I can picture that meeting.

[drray23]

57. yeap me too..

[CatMor]

61. Perfect!!

[PatSeg]

66. Oh yes, just like that

but with ill fitting clothes and goofy hair. Trump is a caricature of the Godfather!

[CatMor]

60. Me too .... trump was probably loving it.

[PatSeg]

67. The perfect revenge

especially after all the insults Graham had directed towards Trump. Some of them were real zingers. So Putin's lapdog turned Graham into his lapdog.

[riversedge]

72. Aug 7, 2018: Lindsey Graham Quips That Trump Brought Up Mueller and Russia 'About 20 Times'

Lindsey has golfed several times with Trump (I read somewhere).






Lindsey Graham Quips That Trump Brought Up Mueller and Russia ‘About 20 Times’
South Carolina senator said he told Trump that ending the Mueller probe would undermine GOP in November

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/graham-quips-that-trump-brought-up-muller-and-russia-about-20-times


Posted Aug 7, 2018 2:48 PM



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Sen. Lindsey Graham said he told the president to just ride out the Russia investigation. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday night that he has told President Donald Trump that ending the special counsel investigation of Robert S. Mueller III would undermine GOP chances in November.

The South Carolina Republican, who played golf with Trump on Sunday in New Jersey and discussed several issues with the president, was asked about the investigation of Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election at a Monday evening event hosted by the Greenville County Republican Party.

“Did Trump ask that question? He must have mentioned that about 20 times,” Graham quipped in response to an audience question about ending the Mueller probe.

Graham said that his message to Trump was in part about the reality of what Republicans could face in November if the Mueller probe is compromised by the actions of the Trump administration or congressional Republicans.

Watch: Graham on Mueller Conversation With Trump: ‘You Just Gotta Ride It Out’...........................

[skylucy]

79. I wonder why no journalist ever asks Graham and the other Putin loving Repubs

if they are afraid that the Russia hacked their emails and might have something on them.

[bettyellen]

80. THIS!!

[atreides1]

81. Not on Graham

Short of proof that he knowingly took foreign money, I believe that the only reason he's now become another yapping dog...is because of info Trump may have on his sister and her family!!!!

[lark]

82. i thought maybe they found gay porn and are holding that over him?

Really, I know nothing about him but he sure is acting like someone who was recently blackmailed or bribed and we know Russia hacked his emails.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Of course, Graham doesn't site evidence. He's shilling for The Orange.

Graham hasn't lost his talent for blowing shit out of his ass. He's come around to shilling for Trumpy, likely because Trumpy is threatening to slander him. Graham's a jellyfish.

[GeorgeGist]

12. but, but ...

jellyfish never forget.

[pangaia]

14. Everybody can blow shit out of their ass.

Graham blows it out of his mouth..

[dchill]

26. That is a true statement.

[Eyeball_Kid]

43. It's admirable that you have such high regard for a Senator of Distinction.

I'm guessing that Trumpy threatened to start tweeting something disparaging about Graham, so Graham buckled and is now kneeling before the Great Orange. There is no McCain anymore to straighten Lindsey's back and tell him to stand up.

[Trueblue Texan]

5. Lyin' Lindsay

is really giving Mueller a signal that he needs to be investigated for Russian collusion as well. Why has he suddenly started telling lies for the president and to discredit the investigation? That's new and sudden. Is he signaling to Mueller that he needs help?

[RVN VET71]

6. Maybe Trump/Putin have the goods on Graham

But there's at least as good a chance that Senator Lyndsey is just a servile, unprincipled, lying bastard with no sense of duty, honor, or country.

And it looks to be one, the other, or both.

Senator McCain, Lyndsey's "long time good friends" hasn't been interred and Graham is already peeing on his grave.

[pangaia]

16. "..Senator Lyndsey is just a servile, unprincipled, lying bastard with no sense of duty, honor,

or country."

We KNOW this is true..

As for Putin.. I would guess, yes.

[dchill]

27. All of which says as much about McCain...

as it does about Graham. IMO.

[at140]

53. Graham & McCain never met a war

they both did not like. If one of them would have been elected president, we would have been in a war with Iran. Graham is a war monger neocon class A.

[luvtheGWN]

7. Let's say Graham is correct.

If the DOJ and FBI were in the tank for Clinton, that must have been BECAUSE they had at least partial evidence of Russian influence (and kompromat) on Trump and were fearful of his attaining the Presidency. But then again......why did the FI Director announce, just days prior to the election, that Hillary's emails were under investigation again?

So basically, what Graham says makes zero sense -- unless he's simply trying to deflect.

[Historic NY]

11. Its also bullshit and he knows it.....

the NY office was running hog wild, goaded on by Giuliani and ex FBI Kelstrom nad the Clinton Cash book.

[duforsure]

8. Liar Graham knows

What he has done, and he knows very well they did their jobs , but under putin's puppet they have to criminalize his opponents now, just like putin's done in other countries where he's installed his puppets then criminalized those he hates. Acts of treason by these people now are becoming normalized. If he weren't so compromised for personal issues, or money , or corruption , he wouldn't be saying these things now. Everyone knows it too. Graham is going to regret this, along with others in the KGOP.

[EricMaundry]

9. So I guess Graham was in the tank for Putin

Nice that he has forgiven himself.

[CentralMass]

10. It's amazing that he could remove his liplock from tRumps arse long enough to speak.

[pangaia]

13. The little shit once again opens his mouth and proves it.

[dalton99a]

15. Well, his master says the enemy is dead

[Achilleaze]

17. You traitorous scumbag

How vile.

[tonyt53]

20. Graham personality #1 speaking.

[ashling]

21. Is this guy even relevant anymore?

I don't think so.

[Nitram]

22. That's a bald-faced lie. Comey helped defeat Clinton by re-opening his investigation only weeks

before the election. The FBI also kept the Russia investigation under wraps until after the election. Both actions materially aided Trumps' election.

[StevieM]

63. I don't think he helped, I think he outright defeated her.

The Comey intervention turned that entire election upside down.

And let's not forget that ridiculous July press conference either.

[Farmer-Rick]

65. Hillary didn't just run against Traitor Trump

She ran against Putin, Comey And Traitor Trump.

[B Stieg]

23. No statesman he. (nt)

[ffr]

24. Repeat. Keep telling yourself that. Repeat. - Graham.

If you say it enough times, it may become true for you to believe, Graham, but it's still a false narrative to the fact the James Comey, the head of the FBI at the time, violated the Hatch Act 10 days before the 2016 GE because of a few tRump supporting crybaby FBI agents who felt it was in their best interests to blow the whistle on rehashed bullshit about HRC E-mail that had had already been reviewed twice and NOT found to contain what they said it contained.

So, go ahead, bring it up again before the 2018 midterms, the unfact that there are some missing HRC E-mail. But the rest of us know there aren't and that you're just a shill.

[still_one]

25. That is why Comey released the memo to the republicans in Congress 11 days before the

election.

Graham, you are a disgrace, but then again so is most of the republican party.

[Botany]

30. +1

"That is why Comey released the memo to the republicans in Congress 11 days before
the election."

[Martin Eden]

54. Repukes will say anything regardless of facts or logic

Because their voters will swallow it whole.

Decades of Fox News and rightwing talk radio have created a post-truth alternate universe which has a terrible impact on the real world we inhabit.

The road to Trump has been a long time in the paving.

[Jarqui]

28. Kompromat indeed

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

42. Interesting.

ty

[beachbum bob]

31. Make up more crap, all the GOP hearings and found what?

[Pachamama]

32. Lindsay Graham went from being the 3rd Amigo of McCain and Lieberman to Putin's and Trump 3rd Amigo

Lindsay Graham has no soul...

That Kompromat on him must be really bad....

My guess, just like with Trump, it involves activities with underage minors....

[jcgoldie]

33. Up is down.

"Don't believe what you see and hear."

[elmac]

35. very important national news from a national news leader

[bucolic_frolic]

36. Better than being in the tank for Putin

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

44. Good point, and so was a vast majority of Americans LG thats why she won?

[shanny]

38. Yeah, that's why the Comey letter was released:

to aid Hillary's chances.

what a feckin' idjit

[mountain grammy]

40. What a lying sack of shit he is.

[CatWoman]

41. two words Lindsey:

Paris Dennard

[peekaloo]

45. Sayeth Thump's Tidy Bowl Man

[videohead5]

46. Graham should be in the tank

The drunk tank that is.

[saidsimplesimon]

47. Graham has made his pact with criminals and traitors,

signed the "loyalty pledge", and dishonored the office of US Senator.

[Mr. Ected]

48. Tell any reasonable American that Comey & Co. were in the tank for Hillary

And they will laugh at your face.

It's bad enough when Trump himself is the dissembler. Lindsey, we know you're trying to protect your corrupt and despicable party, and very likely your own bony ass. Your motives are transparent; your delivery weak.

Save this bullshit for your propaganda appearances on FOX. Save it for the idiots who go to Trump's rallies of their own free will. History will spit in your eye.

[AlexSFCA]

51. graham seems to be given a task: help remove sessions

active measures continue

[liberal N proud]

52. The question then should have been:

Explain Comey reopening the email investigation weeks before the election.

In the tank?

[Backwoodsrider]

55. The fact he chose Trump scares me

Remember not long ago Graham and McCain used to be against Trump but after McCain started dealing with his cancer Graham went out on the golf course with Trump and he has not stopped waving the Trump flag since. Its almost like he needed a new leader and Graham hitched his wagon to Trump. Does he think Trump is still going to be in power in a year?

[Zambero]

56. Comey's 2016 October surprise indicated otherwise

He hurled a Molotov cocktail directly at Hillary Clinton. The results speak for themselves. Cheap rhetoric, indeed.

[paleotn]

58. Ummm, no, Scarlet..

How soon he forgets Comey and the email fiasco. I'm sure his response to that would be...oh fiddly dee!

[ananda]

59. Only in some demented alternate reality world.

Sheesh

[StevieM]

62. The FBI totally destroyed her campaign. They put Trump in the White House. (eom)

[Red Mountain]

64. The golf game seemed to be a turning point

Not sure if it actually was or not. I don't pay that much attention to Graham.

Anyway, the question to always ask is where is the evidence?

It's a very serious charge. There must be evidence.

Getting tens if not hundreds of people to cooperate in a plot to elect Clinton over Trump......not a single one has come forward?

Somebody ALWAYS blows the whistle.

[meadowlander]

69. Because famously 8 days before the election, Comey revealed the Russia investigation was underway...

oh wait...

[Solly Mack]

71. Goodness. Is Graham hoping to replace Sessions?

He's certainly groveling enough.

[Marthe48]

73. How many elected politicians from red states

have a secret allegiance to Dixie?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend?

I'm pretty sure that there are too many people in politics who want to see the South rise. And therefore, do not have America first.

[standingtall]

74. What a lying piece of filth Graham is

If he is not just an opportunistic weasel and he is truly being blackmailed. Then somebody knows what it is that is being used to blackmail him and it is their patriotic duty to spill the beans on him asap.

[SunSeeker]

75. Comey broke FBI policy to bash Hillary at a presser even though the FBI found she broke no laws.

Lindsey is full of shit.

His Trump ass kissing really accelerated after McCain's death. He has completely lost his spine.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

76. Are you on drugs or suffering from dementia Lindsey?

I don't think I've ever heard a bigger load of bullshit.

[MurrayDelph]

78. Lindsey needed a new daddy figure

He's a Renfield.

[Owl]

83. Lindsay. Lieberman. Double ugh.

[duforsure]

84. If that were true

They failed by releasing damming information right before the election , against their rules, that damaged her , not trump. Why would they do that if they were Clinton representatives for her? It was widely known the Justice Department and FBI were called trumplandia for a reason, and the release of information hurting her was from these agents pressured by trump and others, not supporters of Hillary, and Graham knows that, and this is another lie from Graham trying to protect himself from whatever they have gotten on him for this about face on russia, and trump now. Its pretty obvious who Graham's representing now, putin and trump over the American people. He doesn't realize he'll become outed no matter what he does for anything they have on him. Another liar compromised for putin and trump to listen to using lies and propaganda while ignoring the truth.

[raccoon]

85. Does Graham do nothing but run his mouth? NT

[tavernier]

86. He's been promised the AG seat?