Sychophantic South Carolina Republican lawmaker and MAGA lover Lindsey Graham had what I would absolutely describe as a deeply visceral, absolutely outrageous response to the news that his Dear Leader Donald Trump has officially been criminally charged.
Recently, the bombshell news we have all been waiting for finally broke, after the Manhattan grand jury officially voted in favor of formally indicting former United States President Donald J. Trump on criminal charges related to the infamous Stormy Daniels hush money payments.
The work and subsequent decision by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, his investigators and prosecutors, and the grand jury made history in this nation this week, serving as the very first time in the history of the United States that a sitting or former US president has ever been charged with a crime.
Lindsey Graham did NOT handle it well.
Taking to his Twitter in the aftermath of the Manhattan grand juryโs historical decision, Graham posed the rhetorical question, โHow can President Trump avoid prosecution in New York?โ
How can President Trump avoid prosecution in New York? ๐ค
โ Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 31, 2023
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The senator quickly answered himself in a follow-up tweet, writing, โOn the way to the DAโs office on Tuesday, Trump should smash some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop. He would be released IMMEDIATELY!โ
On the way to the DAโs office on Tuesday, Trump should smash some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop.
He would be released IMMEDIATELY!
โ Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 31, 2023
Graham appeared to be taking a not-so-thinly veiled jab at BLM protesters, wrongfully implying that they got away with vandalism and assault during the Floyd riots:
How do you know if youโre a liberal?
You donโt understand the irony of my tweet regarding Trumpโs visit to New York.
โ Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 31, 2023
But Lindseyโs obnoxious response didnโt stop with his insane tweets. The GOP lawmaker was quick to run to the safe and comforting arms of Fox News where he made a red-eyed, emotional appearance to rage against the indictment and beg for some donations to the big guy.
โTheyโre trying to destroy Donald Trump because they fear him at the ballot box,โ Graham cried on Fox. โTo the conservatives out there, make sure you vote if you got friends, make sure they vote. If you donโt have any friends, go make some friends but you need to help this man, Donald J. Trump. Theyโre trying to drain him dry; heโs spent more money on lawyers than most spend on campaigns. Theyโre trying to bleed him dry. Donaldjtrump.com โ go tonight, give the president some money to fight this bullsโt.โ
That clip almost immediately made its way to MSNBC where Morning Joe host, Joe Scarborough, aired Grahamโs meltdown on his show and proceeded to brutally mock and ridicule the ridiculous Republican lawmaker.
โI was going to say, Lindsey Graham was dispatched to do that, but they donโt even have to get the order anymore โ they know the job. Itโs to run out on tv and raise money, we go back to this again,โ Scarborough said, laughing.
โYou know, I always talk about the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker approach to politics scamming people like my grandmother out of their social security checks, $25 here, $50 there,โ he added.
โIโve got to say, that Lindsey Graham moment? Heโs tearing up,โ the MSNBC host continued to laugh. โLindsey knows what a bad man Donald Trump is. Lindsey is the one who said, โif we make him our nominee, heโll destroy the Republican party and we deserve it.'โ
โLindsey almost crying there โ that reminded me of Oral Roberts climbing up into his tower in the โ80s, saying, โGive me $3 million or Iโm not coming down from this tower,'โ igniting laughter from the entire panel.
Grahamโs hissy fit was so bad, in fact, that it even prompted a former Republican Party advisor to weigh in:
I mean Lindsey Graham! I mean get off the sauce, Lindsey! Enough that heโs such a parasite, itโs embarrassing and he is also revealing what Republicans are willing to do in order to keep favor with Trump.โ
Seriously, Lindsey. This is just sad, at this point.
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