Frankly, there has just always been something about South Carolinaโs Senator Lindsey Graham that just does not sit right with most people. No one has ever done a 180 quite like Graham did when it came to his hatred towards, turned blind support for Donald Trump. It just never made any sense, considering all of the awful but true things he had to say about the former New York real estate โmogul,โ only to tuck tail and essentially lap at Trumpโs shoes pretty much out of nowhere.
To cut straight to it, itโs left a hell of a lot of people wondering just what kind of god-awful dirt Donald has on the South Carolina lawmaker.
And while we still donโt have a clear answer as to what Trump may or may not โhaveโ on Lindsey Graham, we do now have a glimpse into the somewhat bizarre relationship between the Republican Senator and the now-former president โ and pretty firm confirmation that Lindseyโs sycophancy runs so deep that even Trump himself would often crack jokes about it.
According to former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin, there was a running inside joke about Lindsey Graham throughout the whole Trump Team.
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Griffin, who now serves as a co-host on ABCโs The View, kicked off a recent segment with a chat about Grahamโs recent interview on Fox Network, in which the senator openly doubled down on his bizarre blind support for the former president.
โI know the downside of Trump, but let me tell you about the upside of Trump. There are no Trump policies without the man, Donald Trump,โ Graham said in his recent interview. โI want him to have another shot. Unfinished business โฆ Iโm for Donald Trump because I know what Iโm going to get.โ
Griffin piped in, โThe one thing I loved about the Lindsey Graham quote was โwe know what weโre going to get with him,'โ before cracking, โWhat? Insurrection? We all saw that happen. Real quick, so Iโve always speculated itโs about 30 percent of the GOP is always Trump, and a study came out that confirmed 28 percent of GOP primary voters are going to be with Trump. The only way to get rid of him is by targeting the other 70 percent of the party who wants to see a sane, reasonable candidate.โ
โYou donโt beat Trump by being Trump-like. And thatโs what heโs trying to do. Maybe theyโll, you know, just go after each other, but there is a lane for somebody who says, you know, I want to be a pro-governance, strong on national security kind of Republican to run. Those are who Iโm keeping my eyes on,โ she added.
Fellow co-host Joy Behar spoke up with a recent quote from now-former Republican Rep. Peter Meijer, who said that people in the GOP are just waiting for Trumpโs โmortal demiseโ at this point, so they can finally just move the hell on.
However, host Sunny Hostin dug around for a little more detail when it came to why, exactly, Graham is so damn devout to Donald Trump.
โBut I have had a question for Alyssa: what does Trump have on Lindsey Graham? Because you usually have a lot of the inside tea because she worked for the man. Unfortunately,โ Hostin posed.
โSo, I donโt know what he has on him, but it was like a running joke among the people closest to Donald Trump, and frankly Donald Trump himself, that he could do anything and Lindsey Graham would be by his side,โ Griffin responded.
Her assessment of that situation certainly seems correct, as one former Republican lawmaker recently likened the Trump/Graham relationship to a โdomestic violence situation.โ
โWhat does he have on him?โ Hostin pressed again.
โItโs kind of a sad legacy. I once really respected Lindsey Graham,โ Griffin said. โWe are eye to eye on foreign policy matters. Thereโs something about โ I donโt self-diagnose people โ like, he needed to follow John McCain. John McCain is unfortunately no longer with us. So now heโs just wagging to Donald Trump. I would encourage Lindsey Graham, be your own man. You donโt need to follow this fool.โ
You can see the clip of the View segment here:
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