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Graham, who just launched a Burisma probe and says it's all "very suspicious" keeps calling Burisma "Bur-MEE-suh."
Aaron Blake ✔ @AaronBlake
Kilmeade plays 2015 clip of Lindsey Graham getting tearful about Joe Biden and saying hes "the nicest person I think I've ever met in politics."
Graham responds that Biden said bad things about his friend McCain in 2008. "They tore the bark off of John McCain."
10:48 AM - Nov 25, 2019
Doesn't explain his effusive praise for VP Biden in 2015...
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...and not really an American?
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)hlthe2b
(102,205 posts)for the nomination?
Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Thats just not true.
The Obama campaign was generally easy on McCain and his lame brained campaign decisions. There was very little criticism of the candidate...talk was of the future; ragging elderly John McCain has nothing to do with the future.
If anything, McCain tore his own bark off.
Resign, Sen. Graham, or tell the truth.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Too many people want to jump on "why can't we all get along train", ignoring the passengers are all POS.
EarlG
(21,942 posts)Or when he implied that he was glad McCain was dead?
Oh wait...
Hes Not a War Hero: Donald Trump Mocks John McCains Service
It Sure Sounds Like Trump Just Implied John McCain Is Rotting in Hell
struggle4progress
(118,273 posts)MARCH 20, 2019
... I have to be honest, Ive never liked him much. Hasnt been for me. I really probably never will, Trump announced during a speech at the Lima Army Tank Plant in Ohio, going on to talk for more than two minutes about exactly why he harbors those feelings, a full seven months after McCains death.
Turning over the Steele dossier to the F.B.I. was not the nicest thing to do, Trump said, especially because McCain hadnt even called him first. Giving the thumbs-down to the Republican health-care plan, he suggested, poured salt in the wound ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/donald-trump-john-mccain-funeral
ronatchig
(575 posts)Trump& Pecker have in that vault at world news headquarters. Is Batboy the secret love child of Graham and a male Russian fruit bat? Curious minds want to know!!
genxlib
(5,524 posts)That it is all political.
Nice between cycles but nasty when they are a potential foe. Justified by the supposed treatment of a republican during an election cycle.