Just hours after the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump for a second time, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsay Graham took to Fox News to denounce the proceedings.
Graham, who had initially raged against the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection which sent him, along with his fellow elected officials fleeing from the Senate chamber, changed his tune in an interview with Sean Hannity. Graham proceeded to argue that impeaching Trump after he left office was a “slippery slope” that could lead to impeaching past, even dead, Presidents.
“We impeached the president today without any evidence,” Graham said. “It’s just sheer hatred. If this becomes the norm, be careful what you wish for today. Under this theory the radical left if you can impeach a president after they’re out of office, why don’t we impeach George Washington? He owned slaves. Where does this stop?!”
Here’s Lindsey Graham on Hannity arguing that impeaching Trump is a slippery slope to impeaching George Washington for owning slaves pic.twitter.com/7y8evA6kAL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 14, 2021
Graham’s mention of impeaching Trump after he leaves office refers to recent comments by Sen. Mitch McConnell, who favors impeachment of Trump but wants to wait until after he leaves office January 20 to begin the trial.
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Graham had initially denounced the Capitol attack, labeling the perpetrators terrorists and seditionists. His recent statement comes just days after his Senate colleague, Sherrod Brown, reported that he witnessed Graham screaming at Capitol security during the attack.
“Lindsey Graham, with his mask off, started screaming at one of the officers — I think it was one of the captains — saying, ‘How come you didn’t protect us? It’s your job,'” Brown recalled, according to Business Insider.
Lindsay Graham has been one of the most ardent defenders of Donald Trump over the past four years. Nevertheless, following Graham’s denunciation of the Capitol violence, video circulated of the senator at the Reagan International Airport in Washington getting heckled by Trump supporters. In the footage, Graham walks flanked by security, his head hanging low, his mask removed, amid chants of “traitor.” Graham is also embattled in an election scandal, following reports that he lobbied election officials in several states to alter or overturn the results of the 2020 Election to favor Donald Trump.
JustLarry
I believe this vile creature will say and do anything to sleep with straight men, that is his only goal in life.
Max
“We impeached the president today without any evidence,” Graham said.
even when the stuff is dripping out of him, he’ll still say he’s not a bottom(feeder).
trsxyz
Such a loser…
Mister P
The senate and Graham-ma should have convicted him for the first impeachment.
Cam
Look, Lindsay, we get it, Putin/Trump have pictures of you getting railed by men.
The pathetic thing is, if closet cases like Miss Lindsay came out, his life would be easier. As it is, he’s just another traitorous Republican.
CityguyUSA
I don’t want him frequenting any watering holes I might ever go to. Please let’s not encourage him.
BoomerMyles
Lady G is going to meet his comeuppance HARD after tRump is gone and everything comes out against the both of them.
drumstick
Just because he is a bottom, doesn’t mean he has a bottom…
michael_totzke
Aunt Pittypat has gone around the bend …
cubcmh
That’s what the Senate trial is for, dipshit.
dlbnyc325
“Lindsey Graham…my god!… I’ll be really obscene here. What I want to ask Lindsey Graham is: Does Donald Trump’s ass taste like Vladimir Putin’s dick? Because I figure you ought to be the one [to know].” – Ron Reagan, Jr., Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Episode 107, podcast, January 7, 2021.
wolfman6
Until we get back to a time when Democrats and Republicans recognize the same truth and the Republicans quit lying about the Democrats every time they open their mouths, we are never going to see an end to the division and divisiveness the Republicans have brought into politics, which began with the Clinton era and really started to peak during Clinton’s impeachment. It all became us versus them. Now that has seeped into everyday life, so that we have an us versus them way of life, which is very disturbing and will be a long time before this country starts to heal. And Congress needs to take action against FOX News and either get them off the air, or force a “truth in news programming” law so that they can’t tell their lies that have also led to our current state of the union.
Caine
I highly recommend anyone watch the TV show Mrs. America because I think it really started back with Ronald Reagan courting the conservative South to get elected – and I did not know that until I watched that show.
graphicjack
The problem is, Faux News isn’t even the craziest station anymore. There’s OANN, Alex Jones, and good ol’ Rush Limbaugh who even on his deathbed would spin new lies and conspiracies, just to name a few. The right wing echo chamber is so programmed and has been lied to for so long that they would literally believe their own mother was a pedophile if she was an anti-Trump ‘moderate’ Republican. Outside of being labelled as hate groups and deprogramming cultist QAnon followers, I don’t know if there’s any way to reach these MAGAts anymore. They’re too far gone.
Kangol2
And don’t forget YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat and, yes, Twitter. Even smart, reasonable people on the Left that I know have sent me crazy stuff right off Facebook in particular–Don the Con is going to implement martial law, the vaccine may be a way of getting people’s DNA, etc.–and I’m like, this is insanity, so please, use your critical faculties and think about this for a second. Put it all together and it makes for quite a challenge for people across ideological lines but even within the two parties to be on the same page.
But it predates the attacks on Clinton (which the “mainstream media,” especially the New York Times participated in), or Reagan’s appeal to Southern White supremacists (and right-wing fanatics like Phyllis Schlafly), and can be dated much further back, with one important moment being post-WW2 hysteria around Communism and the Cold War. So much of that history is obscured, but if you read up on the late 1940s and 1950s, you see the rhetoric we’re seeing now–“Democrats are socialists,” “Democrats are Communists,” etc.–in circulation all the way back then.
Hell, Harry Truman, a Democrat, cleared so many alleged Communists out of the federal government that there was almost no one left to be purged by Dwight Eisenhower, one of the most beloved Republicans ever to be elected, to go after, and yet right-wing Republicans still accused Eisenhower of supporting or protecting Communists!
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
It began with the election in 1980 that brought Reagan to power. Jimmy Carter tried to do the right thing but didn’t understand the world and its politics at that time very well. He handed the Panama Canal over to Gen. Omar Trujillo’s, a man who claimed to wrap himself in democracy but was more or less on the same level and Samosa of Nicaragua and had a touch of Castro sprinkled into his way of doing things. Carter was a disaster and lost in a landslide.
Reagan rode that frustration into office and kept up the facade of hating democrats but behind closed doors he negotiated with them thoroughly so that he got what he wanted while not losing face. He, Reagan, raised taxes six times before he left office.
Bush was a expert on foreign policy but he was not a leader. He could not control the raucous mob and lost the election because of party infighting. The one good thing Bush did do domestically was take the wind out of those evangelical leaders (Falwell and Robertson) once he got elected. Bush let it be known he wasn’t having ANY of their input on how he did things and that was a major reason as to why he lost the election in 1992, he lost the evangelical vote. Bush sic’d the IRS on them and it became very obvious Falwell had the choice of shutting his mouth up of going to jail for blatant tax evasion he enjoyed under Reagan. The same went for Robertson and his bunch of evangelical gangsters. Even Jessie Jackson and his Operation Push knew better than to criticize Bush. It was agreed by all sanctimonious b-tards that Bush HAD to go (and yes, the horrors of the economy under his leadership also played a role in his departure but NOT his foreign policy).
Clinton came along and from that moment on it was an in-your-face environment from the GOP. Near octogenarian Bob Dole loses the election of 1996 by such a landslide against Clinton that all out war was declared in the republican ranks for leadership and it was won by Newt Gingrich (Dick Armey, Phil “Elmer Fudd” Graham, Pat Buchanan) and a few others began to go the way of the dodo but the war was still raging within for direction. Those the venom that was being spewed by the GOP is what gave strength for Tim McVeigh to set off that bomb in OKC.
Moving on, Gingrich got overthrown and Clinton got impeached but yet it was the GOP House Speaker Bob Livingston who lost his head because of reasons of infidelity. Again the GOP and their cynicism or shall we karma did them in and once again they were leaderless. Along comes Dennis Hastert (it would be proven he was a family member of ours) as Speaker and featuring W. Bush with Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi now in the roll of the antagonist/war within monger making it clear from the start he felt that Bush was not qualified for the presidency by not allowing ONE sitting GOP senator to say Bush won that election. I kid you not, it wasn’t until the Supreme Court ruled Bush won that the GOP senators got onboard. And even then it was tumultuous. There hasn’t been unity in the GOP since Reagan left and if you notice most of them will ask “who the hell was Reagan” to give you an idea of how low on the totem pole of GOP respect Reagan has fallen.
Prowelsh56
Yes! he is a special kind of deplorable for sure and his words and actions should spark outrage. Problem is that in his home State he wins votes. So have to ask the question as to the demographic that is voting for him? Are they all like him?
barryaksarben
NO EVIDENCE? run the tape of trump’s rally and his tweets. Dont even have to guess like in clue
Bob
when the trial happens this time (after moscow mitch can’t stop it), it should be hilarious. Just TV footage of dumpy riling people up and pointing them at the Capitol should be enough! He was actually stupid enough to do those speeches in front of cameras!
M K
No evidence??? Absolutely no witnesses are required to testify as the presidents own words convict him.
LMG
Lindsey Graham Cracker is the biggest hypocritic in Congress; and that’s saying a lot. Compare what he said during Clinton’s impeachment, then what he said in this Congress after the assault, then what he says now, and finally throw in what he tried to do by interfering with the GA election. He should be impeached on the grounds of severe servility and attempting to alter the election in a state that he is not even affiliated with. He is a pathetic creature who has spent most of his life crashing into a closet door while masking his screams of frustration and conflict with screams of political nonsense. Bill Maher said it best: “Poor Lindsey was relentlessly teased in school by his fellow classmates. They called him “Lindsey”.
buckhill2
What a it with Americans these days? There are no brain cells firing to weed through all of the crap to get the real story. The establishment is co-dependent, trump lies, republicans say it’s true, repeat it enough times it becomes gospel.
Politics has become look at me vs look at the job I’m doing for the people.
What I don’t get is what does Trump have on all of these wussy republicans in order to wield such control. Having a backbone isn’t a job requirement in Washington.
Parting comment, I’m afraid for the future generations on how these past 4 years will be spun as Great instead of the facts. There are a lot of lessons to be learned but we’re stupid Americans and we’ll be doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
Josh in OR
Trump HAS to have some kind of HORRIFYING evidence against Graham. That’s the only thing I can think of. Maybe photos, maybe pictures, maybe just the name of the boy Lady A SWEARS was 18 when he paid the boy to do those terrible things…
SOMETHING is out there, that gives the most despicable man in politics such a firm grip on the balls of the most laughable person in politics.
curiobi
It has to be even more serious than sex with a male, even an underage one knowingly or unknowingly because they spin that all the time so long as it’s a teen. Thry cqll it an error in judgment, blah blah. So it either has be a male no one could mistake for a teen, as in an obvious child, so they cannot spin it as a mistake, or a straight up murder of one of the sex workers he reportedly favours.
It has to be blackmail yes, but over something that has no defence, no spin, and no statute of limitations.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Not only is it a same sex tape but the guy in the video with Graham has come forward. It was posted here on Queerty awhile back but do a google/bing search and read all about it. As a matter of fact MSNBC has a youtube video about the allegations.
The real Bruce
I wonder if the prison they both end up at has a put-put golf course? Wouldn’t it be just too cozy if they could be cell-mates?