Graham defends Kavanaugh against criticism over temperament: He was 'rightly offended'

[DonViejo]

BY MICHAEL BURKE - 09/30/18 09:38 AM EDT

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday defended Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh against criticism that he was too angry in testimony last week on Capitol Hill, saying that Kavanaugh behaved like someone "who was innocent."

“I’m offended by the fact that anybody would hold it against Brett Kavanaugh to be upset by the way he was treated. Words were put in his mouth that he didn’t say," Graham said on ABC's "This Week."

“I find it offensive that if somebody defends themselves against wholesale character assassination, trying to destroy him and his family. The temperament I saw was a man who was innocent, who was rightly offended by being destroyed for a political purpose," Graham added later in the interview.

Graham also said he has a problem "with the people who did this to him, not how he responded."

Kavanaugh has drawn criticism from Democrats for his emotional testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday as he defended himself against accusations that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford in the 1980s.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Oh blow it out your lily white ass, snowflake...

Kavan-R is a whiny little snot, just like you.

[Meadowoak]

2. Nobody wants to destroy him or his family. He is just unfit for scotus, or any court for that

Matter.

[ananda]

3. Pelosi called Kav hysterical! I'll go with that, thank you!

nt

[shraby]

4. Graham has no credibility. I saw him get extremely upset when the news of torture in Iraq

came out. That didn't stop him for going into cover-up mode right after that.

Ptooey!!!!

He is a paper person.

[benld74]

5. When truth comes out about Lindsey

It will become obvious why he is acting in this manner all of a sudden.
Ever since that golf outing with dear leader
He’s be acting more deranged by the interview
Showing up on Hannity was clincher

[helpisontheway]

6. How could he say anything negative? He looked/acted like a lunatic too! Nt

[Greybnk48]

7. Graham was foaming at the mouth too,

apparently to make Kavanaugh look less crazy and volatile. Kind of a, "see, it's not unusual to act nuts" kind of thing.

[Guilded Lilly]

8. We, the decent people, are rightly offended that Graham is a bloviating, two-faced...

tool of dense, self-privileged, Republican white male entitlement and will revolt against his arrogant spittle laden spewing with every sane and justice respecting breath in our pro-democracy bodies.