"He's been supporting Trump, he's been covering for Trump."

[dajoki]

Authoritarianism expert hints Lindsey Graham may be covering for Trump due to the 2016 Russian hacking of his own emails
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/authoritarianism-expert-hints-lindsey-graham-may-covering-trump-due-2016-russian-hacking-emails/

Addressing the about-face Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has made — going from Donald Trump critic to stalwart Trump defender — authoritarian expert Sarah Kendzior suggested that the South Carolina Republican may be doing it involuntarily.

Appearing on MSNBC’s AM Joy with guest host Jonathan Capehart, Kendzior was asked what she made of Graham who called for the Mueller investigation in the beginning but now wants it to abruptly end.

On Sunday, Graham appeared on Fox News Sunday where he said, “These [FBI] investigations against Trump were corrupt to the core. They gave Clinton a pass, and we need a special counsel to look at all things at the Department of Justice and FBI when it came to the Trump investigation, particularly the counterintelligence investigation.”

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“I can offer some theories. Lindsey Graham was one of the people who called for the investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to the Kremlin,” Kendzior began. “He did that all the way back in 2016 before Trump was inaugurated. He has then done a complete 180. He’s been supporting Trump, he’s been covering for Trump.”

“There are a few things we should remember, ” she advised. “The RNC was hacked; no one knows what happened to those emails. Lindsey Graham personally was hacked and nobody knows who has those emails. The RNC is complicit financially and politically and broadly in what the Trump campaign has done in terms of illicit interactions with Russia.”

[Anon-C]

1. Excellent.

[magicarpet]

2. Did the Russians find a few skeletons banging around in his

.... closet that Lindsey does not want to escape ? Who knows what naughty things Lindsey has done, that were revealed in his emails, but he would rather they remain a secret ?

[ZZenith]

5. Probably the skeleton of one Lindsey Olin Graham. N/t

[Maraya1969]

6. Oh that one made me crack up!!!!

[ZZenith]

7. Then I have done my good deed for the day.

[BamaRefugee]

10. Photos of him and John McCain dressed in Ante-Bellum hoop skirts...

falling all over each other on the "fainting couch"...they used to BOTH venture out into the world all dressed up (to criticize tRump), then run back to the safety of their Macho He-Man Rock Ribbed Republican closets, giggling and skipping all the way home.

[paleotn]

17. Oh fiddly dee!

Maybe it was this one. Who's that in the background? McCain and McTurtle? They seem happy about something.

[lame54]

3. I do declare

[Historic NY]

4. They probably have enough for a movie...

[SunSeeker]

8. BABOOM! Russia's got kompromat on Lindsey!

[wishstar]

9. Graham abruptly changed his tune right after his first one-on-one Trump golf meetup

which certainly looked suspiciously as if Trump had threatened him with exposure by letting him know Russians had kompromat on Lindsey

[BamaRefugee]

11. What better place for tRump to hand off the paper bag full of cash...

...than the men's room just off the 13th tee?

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. yep, Putin also gathered GOP emails

My guess is he is realizing that he's up to it to the eyeballs himself if Mueller isn't shut down.

[Botany]

12. Ms. Lindsey,

"I must retire to my fainting couch."

Gee I remember Graham's 7 year 77 million $ B.J. hunt on Bill Clinton.

Btw to my LGBT friends I don't mean to make any anti gay slurs but the hypocrisy really sticks in my craw.

[erlewyne]

13. You are missing the point

The only way the G.O.P. can exist is if Trump remains.
They have painted themselves in a corner. Trump
goes and it is good-bye G.O.P.

EW

[Timmygoat]

14. I have heard Lindsay Graham

Being called by some in Washington as 'Miss Lindsay'
Also his defender John McCain is away sick.

[lindysalsagal]

16. Most of the gop leadership took russian money, so they're all compromised.

Nothing else this year makes sense unless you know that.

[calimary]

20. Interesting point.

If I had to guess - “are they or aren’t they” I’d have to go with “they are.” They’re now looking more suspicious, like they’re trying to preserve and protect their own hides, not just trump’s. Ramping up all the cries of “probe’s gotta stop” just as Robert Mueller seems to be closing in.

It just looks, sounds, acts, quacks, and of course smells suspicious now.

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. Russian hacked Democrats, found pitifully little

But what they probably found in the on GOP servers...

They own the GOP completely. All of them.

[UTUSN]

21. K&R