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    Lindsey Graham ‘Didn’t Particularly Like’ Trump’s Mockery of Christine Blasey Ford

    Lindsey Graham ‘Didn’t Particularly Like’ Trump’s Mockery of Christine Blasey Ford

    In a combative interview Wednesday, the South Carolina senator strongly defended Brett Kavanaugh, and argued his fiery rhetoric is sincere.

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    Senator Lindsey Graham has emerged as the most vocal champion of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. But in an interview Wednesday, he suggested that President Trump's recent attacks on Christine Blasey Ford, the judge's accuser, aren't useful.

    "President Trump went through a factual rendition that I didn’t particularly like," Graham said. "I would tell him knock it off. You’re not helping."

    In a combative interview Wednesday at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, Graham remembered his late friend John McCain, defended Trump's leadership, and explained his approach to Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation process. Interviewer Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, asked Graham how, given his reverence for McCain and Trump’s harsh attacks against the late senator, he had managed to forge such a close relationship with the president.

    “Listen, trust me, I’ve told the president every way I know [that] I think that’s cheap, that hurts you, it doesn’t hurt John,” Graham said. But, he suggested, McCain was always willing to move on, and so is he. He argued that working with Trump is a prudent political choice, too.

    “When it’s over, it was over for John. Vietnam, Obama, Bush. I’ve got zero doubt about what I should do. I represent the people of South Carolina. I love John McCain, but my day job is to represent the people of South Carolina,” Graham said. “They expect me to work with President Trump.”

    Graham’s case for working with the president actually cuts two ways: Not only is it what his constituents want him to do, but he thinks it’s the best way to influence the president’s choices.

    “You can disagree with him but he’s gotta believe that you want him to be successful in order to listen to you,” he said. For example, Graham has succeeded in pushing Trump in a more hawkish direction on many foreign-policy issues, though he said he still worries Trump is too soft on Kim Jong Un.

    “I’m worried that North Korea is separating us from South Korea,” he said. “I worry that we’re getting played here.”

    The imperative of soothing Trump often places Graham in difficult corners, though. When Goldberg asked Graham about the president’s personal attacks on Ford at a rally Tuesday night, Graham responded: “It can be worse. You can actually kill somebody’s cat and puncture their tires to get them to shut up"—references to intimidation that women who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct in the 1990s said they suffered. As Goldberg noted, that’s pure whataboutism, not a defense of Trump’s comments.

    Graham peevishly rejected any suggestion that he was performing for Trump’s benefit when he defended the judge, rather than feeling righteous anger.

    “He’s not Bill Cosby. He’s not Harvey Weinstein. This is about power usually, it’s not about sex. If you’re a serial rapist in high school, you usually don’t get over it,” Graham said. “It doesn’t add up to me.”

    Many Republicans have taken the position that they believe Ford was assaulted, but they don’t believe Kavanaugh was the perpetrator. Graham declined to explain how he squared those two ideas, and instead pointed to the principle of innocence until proven guilty.

    He also rejected the idea that Kavanaugh’s blistering attack on Democrats and the Senate confirmation process should preclude him from serving on the Court.

    “Now, let’s disqualify him now because the way he behaved in the hearing. I would never do that, because you’re rewarding people who are using the most despicable tactics I have ever seen in politics,” Graham said. “I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as I do right now. Republicans across the board—country club, Tea Party—believe this was way over the top.”

    Graham did have one olive branch for Democrats. Acknowledging that the GOP had blocked former President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, Graham said that if he becomes chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he will keep that precedent.

    “If an opening comes in the last year of Trump’s term and the primary process has started, we’ll wait for the next election,” Graham said. But that contingent promise probably won’t go very far in rebuilding bipartisan comity in the Senate.

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    “Now, let’s disqualify him now because the way he behaved in the hearing. I would never do that, because you’re rewarding people who are using the most despicable tactics I have ever seen in politics,” Graham said. “I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as I do right now. Republicans across the board—country club, Tea Party—believe this was way over the top.”
    I sure hope so! Based on the polls, the Republican Party has been unified during this Administration. We have John McCain who screwed the pooch on the new healthcare bill last year, but he has now passed away and an excellent Republican has been appointed to serve out his term.

    We have Flake who can't figure out who he's supposed to be representing, foreigners or citizens of the United States who elected him, but he's not running again, and hopefully we'll have a great long-term Republican Senator in his spot if everyone works hard to that end.

    And yes we have Murkowski and Collins, who like me are Pro-Choice and defend women's right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, but for the most part they vote the party line and I trust will continue doing so.

    And yes, we're divided on how to solve the immigration problem and who should get the boot, but when we have enough Republicans to actually pass a bill in Congress, a lot of this will or should go away and we can pass Trump's 70 point plan to solve this enormous problem because while the Executive Branch tweaks and twacks are helpful but at great expense, the results are way to small to even slow it down, let it alone resolve it.

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    President Trump wants to expose the swamp, to tell the American people what is going on. Lindsey Graham lost to President Trump. He has made excuses for Senator Flake and Dianne Feinstein. President Trump is rightly upset about the truth coming out about Dr. Ford, her claims regarding Judge Kavanaugh, and her associations, etc.
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