(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . This is who Lindsey Graham has ALWAYS been - wherein HE ADMITTED WHO HE IS & HAS ALWAYS BEEN [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-09-10 I was reading a truly excellent diary and I felt like I wanted to add onto that: . Lindsey Graham knows that what he has been saying is false. When he started making false allegations and Hunter and Joe Biden and President Biden said something to him about it, he tried to justify it to Joe and Jill by saying that he had to do this because it would help him politically and he didn't understand why Joe wouldn't accept that as an adequate justification. When people have asked what the hell happened to Lindsey Graham, Steve Schmidt and journalists have responded with a deep dive into Lindsey's past and have demonstrated decisively that Lindsey Graham is who Lindsey Graham has always been. He has always been a pilot fish as Steve Schmidt rightly pointed out (see YouTube video ) . He has always had the best sense of what is coming up in Republican Party politics, he has always been the best at reading the room of Republican Party voters and politicians. He has ALWAYS been willing to do what is politically expedient for himself regardless of what it costs our democracy or the country or the truth or people whom he pretended to befriend. This is who this piece of shit is. He has never had any integrity or character. . The Rolling Stone points out: . preemptively announced he wouldn’t be reading any of the transcripts of deposed House witnesses, though he’ll be a juror in the trial, telling reporters he’d “written the whole process off . . . this is a bunch of B.S.”; and most recently, requested documents for a Judiciary Committee investigation into the entirely baseless claims that Trump’s leading 2020 rival, Joe Biden, pressured the government of Ukraine to fire its lead prosecutor in an effort to help his son Hunter. Here was video evidence of Graham’s willingness to protect a man he knows to be corrupt by falsely accusing a friend of corruption. By that point, though, Graham’s debasement had been so thoroughly realized, the hypocrisy on display barely made an impact. “We were talking about politics, and he looked at me and said, ‘Larry, you’re too honest to be in politics,’ ” Brandt recalls. . . The Guardian points out that Lindsey Graham justified his attacks on the Biden's by saying that it was politically expedient for him . 'Short and not especially sweet’: Lindsey Graham called Biden over Trump support The Republican senator told the president his attacks on his son Hunter were the ‘bare minimum’ to satisfy Trump supporters The South Carolina Republican senator Lindsey Graham called Joe Biden after his victory over Donald Trump to tell the president he only joined attacks on his son, Hunter Biden, as a “bare minimum” to satisfy Trump supporters US politics – live coverage . . . CNN documents where Lindsey Graham admits to having no character and only caring about what is politically expedient . Later that year, Graham acknowledged the reason behind his pro-Trump shift to Politico, stating, " If you know anything about me, it'd be odd for me not to do this ... This is to try and be relevant." . . . . . 1. Donald Trump (Lindsey Graham's flip flops on his support for Donald Trump 2. Mohammed Bin Salman (he would never shake MBS' hand after MBS had journalist Jamal Khashoggi brutally murdered 3. Supreme Court nominations in last year of a president's term (Lindsey Graham promised that he would not support a republican president attempting to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in the last year of their term) . . [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/10/2192545/-This-is-who-Lindsey-Graham-has-ALWAYS-been-wherein-HE-ADMITTED-WHO-HE-IS-HAS-ALWAYS-BEEN Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/