Lindsey Graham Reportedly Said When Asked About Biden Possibly Picking Sally Yates As Attorney General: "Mmmm I Don't Think So"

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (R) sure is singing a different tune after the Electoral College on Monday began voting to recognize Joe Biden as the President-elect officially. All 538 electors will meet in their respective states to cast their votes for president based on the election results that were recently certified by all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and Biden officially crossed the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the White House in January. Graham has served as one of the biggest suck-ups to Donald Trump, and that will be his legacy after pandering to a mentally ill president for four years while Americans are enduring multiple crises. But hey, we hope those golf games with the president were worth it, Linds.

It appears that Lindsey knows it’s over, too, although, he said, “I think we’ll let those legal challenges play out.” And as for Joe Biden’s picks for his administration, Graham seemed to be fine with all of them, except for former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who is on Biden’s shortlist for AG.

GRAHAM goes on to praise several of @JoeBiden‘s current & potential cabinet picks: He’s in favor of granting Austin a waiver, thinks Yellen would be fine at Treasury, says he’s known Blinken for years, two thumbs up to Garland or Jones as AG. (On Yates: “Mmmm I don’t think so.”) https://t.co/OLf9i6CMGq

— Lindsay Wise (@lindsaywise) December 14, 2020

And that’s interesting since Graham has previously suggested that Republicans won’t confirm an Attorney General that will investigate Donald Trump. And Trump fired Yates after she refused to enforce his travel band. “(Yates) has betrayed the Department of Justice,” the White House statement said at the time. Yeah, no, she didn’t betray the Department of Justice.

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Yates also testified in August in a Senate Judiciary Committee probe into the Russia investigation. Committee chairman Lindsey Graham confirmed the Obama-era official’s attendance at the time. She brought home several points, including that Trump was not being surveilled, and neither was Michael Flynn. Trump recently pardoned Flynn even though he lied to the FBI.

I’m going to go out on a limb here to suggest that Graham is afraid of Yates.

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