Lindsey discusses "bipartisan support" of censure to spare country "trauma" of impeachment trial

[Miles Archer]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested on Tuesday that President Donald Trump might be censured to prevent the country from going through a “traumatic” impeachment trial in the Senate.

Graham, who has been Trump’s biggest defender in the Senate, made the suggestion when he was asked about a possible censure, according to CBS journalist Alan He.

“Who am I to advise my Dem colleagues about what to do,” Graham reportedly said. “Censure would probably gain some bipartisan support… the country going through an impeachment trial would be traumatic and I think we should avoid that if possible.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/lindsey-graham-floats-censure-with-trump-in-london-senate-trial-will-be-too-traumatic-on-the-country/

[onecaliberal]

1. Fuck Lindsey and his traitor party and criminal president. Lock them all up.

[wryter2000]

2. Sounds like

He doesn't think his President is innocent, after all.

[dchill]

7. Right - because who would censure an innocent man?

[karynnj]

52. Not necessarily

No one asked him if HE would vote for censure. I suspect they want the Democrats to back down from impeaching Trump in the House and just censure him -- however, he is not saying any Republicans will vote for censure.

Also, consider they expect Trump to run in 2020. A censure vote that many Republicans vote will ask the question of whether they support him for re-election and why.

[wryter2000]

56. He does say censure would get some bipartisan support

That suggests at least one Republican thinks Trump did something bad.

[dchill]

3. It's not so much "traumatic" as it is "catharsis," Lindsey.

I hear you're being blackmailed. How does that feel?

[J_William_Ryan]

4. Spare

the country the trauma of another 4 years of Trump.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. That was put on the table for Clinton by Democrats in 1998

Republicans weren't quite as concerned about the "trauma" of an impeachment trial in the Senate for Clinton and him lying about a consensual affair.

What he really means IMHO is that he's scared shirtless that *something* is going to come out the hearings in the House or trial in the Senate about him or other GOPers, so they want to start talking about ways to end this altogether- before anything horrifically damaging comes out on anybody.

[LenaBaby61]

27. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[yonder]

39. Spot on.

[DFW]

63. Graham wasn't interested on settling for censure when he was prosecuting Clinton

Graham was one of the House "managers" pursuing Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial. Not just voting for impeachment, but an active participant in prosecuting him in the Senate trial. No vote for censure, but an attempt to remove him from office.

Trump, whose offenses are against the country and everyone in it, is worthy of Graham's protection? Why? What compromising photos does Trump have that make Graham so terrified of a Trump trial in the Senate that he is proposing censure as a Hail Mary attempt to stop a falling boulder with a slingshot?

[MFGsunny]

64. Sign me up too on your hypothesis.

Ms. Lindsey is not as dumb as she feigns.

THE REAL REPUKE FEAR =
MF45 won't go down alone. He's taking a whole lot more ruski repuke a$$ets with him.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

67. Which of course

I will lose exactly zero sleep over.

[llmart]

68. You hit the nail on the head.

He's the one who is currently traumatized by the looks of him.

[pecosbob]

6. ...and the horse you rode in on.

[malaise]

8. Two words

Fuck dat

[Zoonart]

16. With you...

F Dat Noise!

I thought he was innocent... so not you want a plea bargain? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[maxsolomon]

48. 2 more: Bill Clinton

Graham was an Impeachment Manager against Clinton, for the High Crime of Perjury over a consensual affair. THAT was essential to the nation, but THIS is not?

He is a paragon of situational ethics and hypocrisy.

[malaise]

49. +1,000

The truth

[Proud Liberal Dem]

61. Do you remember the good old days

where Republicans repeatedly accused US of "moral relativism"?

[louis-t]

9. Traumatic for you, asshole.

The country will do just fine. If we let this asshole get away with this, we have lost the country.

[NurseJackie]

10. Poor Lindsey Graham... well, I never! Lawdy!

he country going through an impeachment trial would be traumatic and I think we should avoid that if possible.”

His Southern-Gentleman accent, ways and mannerisms aren't fooling me for one second. He's AFRAID! None of this is sincere or honorable. What will be revealed about HIM if an impeachment trial goes forward? What's he hiding?

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. Bless his heart, he MEANS well...

But screw that. The country is already traumatized. So take your concern, Lindsey, and shove it up your hibiscus.

(Oh, crap. Lindsey has fainted. Who's in charge of the smelling salts today?)

[NurseJackie]

38. Here's an amateur comedian that tickles my funny bone!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtKhGy0cnsnNXylBvkdA7hA

[gratuitous]

11. Shorter Sen. Graham: President Trump should be above the law

Also, I don't want to have to vote on an impeachment trial in the Senate, because it's a no-win situation for me.

Too bad, Senator. Suck it up and get ready to do your constitutional duty. You and your like-minded colleagues can always resign your seats if that's too onerous.

[bluestarone]

12. Through THIS statement i see a BIG CRACK developing!

They ALL will fall in it! FUCK THEM ALL full speed ahead with IMPEACHMENT!!!

[C_U_L8R]

13. Sounds like a retreat

It's still obnoxious but the Republican's Trump defense is eroding. You just can't build a solid case with bullshit.

[Hugin]

14. It's far easier to ignore a censure...

for people like Leningrad Lindsey and Comrade Trump who have no shame.

[spanone]

15. Tell them to stick their censure up their collective asses

[dewsgirl]

17. Censure will show him.🙄

[SWBTATTReg]

18. Hmmmm...perhaps the evidence piling up against rump is getting to the point where it is ...

getting too hard to ignore? Excuses can't make it go away so easily.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Let's Buy Into Graham's Suggestion

Get bipartisan support for censure!
The impeach!
Happy Lindsay?

[BootinUp]

20. Coward. Nt

[YOHABLO]

22. Censure is a slap on the wrist. He has other intentions.

[calguy]

23. I'll accept the same censure deal

that they gave to Bill Clinton, whose "crimes" were petty compared to this clown's abuses of office.

[Johonny]

24. I'm open to that if the censor includes opening up the presidency to federal prosecution

and removes Barr's unconstitutional position.

[Takket]

25. There is already majority support for impeachment and removal

So

Fuck off Lindsay

[livetohike]

28. That censure should have happened on Day One of

this debacle of a presidency. Trump was permitted to behave like an ass without any rebuke. The impeachment has to go forward with or without the cowardly GOP.

[yonder]

40. Absolutely right.

Should've happened the first time he showed his colors as president.

[FiveGoodMen]

29. Lindsey, Fuck you with a rusty, tetanus-covered railroad spike ... sideways.

[GoCubsGo]

30. Take your "censure" and shove it up your dirty, filthy ass, Lindsey.

I join the millions who will NOT be "traumatized" by impeachment. I look forward to it, and hope your corrupt ass gets exposed in the process.

[MineralMan]

31. Bugger off, Lindsey!

Censure is not adequate. Nope. Vote to remove him, you crusty old reprobate!

[wryter2000]

32. How about

Let's end the trauma we've been living in for almost three years instead?

[Cartoonist]

33. I have a better idea

To spare us the trauma, tell your lip pad to resign.

[BannonsLiver]

34. He didn't give 2 shits about all of that back in 1998

Fuck you, Linzy. As always.

[The_Counsel]

35. First of All: "Bipartisan" My Hairy Brown Buttocks!

If Graham gets even ONE Dem vote for censure (and we all know that means Mr. Manchin of West Virginia ) they will consider it "bipartisan," though it will be nowhere near that.

Secondly, did Mr. Graham support censure for Mr. Clinton when all he did was lie about an embarrassing affair (and not even under oath)? Meanwhile, lying is the native tongue of the guy Leningrad Lindsey's protecting today.

[moondust]

36. Wouldn't do a thing

to change his glaringly impeachable behavior.

[ScratchCat]

37. This is interesting

Because Lindsey seems to not say anything unless pressed by Trump to do so. So, does that mean that maybe, just maybe, Trump is telling Lindsey to do this because he knows he loses support once all the hearings are said and done? Lindsey didn't just come out on his own and essentially "walk back"* the "he's innocent" nonsense without someone telling him to.

(* You don't offer up "censure" if someone is innocent, thus he walked it back)

[crickets]

43. That is an interesting point.

I doubt Lindsey is saying or doing anything these days without specific marching orders. It's only a question of who's giving them to him.

[gibraltar72]

41. Nah it was perfect. Remember Lindsay?

[GeorgeGist]

42. Too late, Baby

[Autumn]

44. Fuck your censure bullshit. All that does is give you a fucking out.

[Wednesdays]

45. Traumatic? Lindsey wasn't clutching his pearls so much

when it was Bill Clinton in the hot seat.

[Mme. Defarge]

46. Why not end the ongoing trauma of the Trump presidency?!

That is not hyperbole. When will our ongoing national nightmare finally be over?

[H2O Man]

47. Recommended.

Last week, in one (or two) of the essays I posted, I noted that several republican Senators were putting out the trial balloon of censure rather than impeachment. At least two had brought it up in off-the-record conversations with Democrats.

[Kaleva]

50. Freepers would never accept this as their god has done nothing wrong,

[Botany]

51. Fuck you Lindsey!

" .. the country going through an impeachment trial would be traumatic ..." R you shitting me Mr. B.J.
Hunter?

[Kurt V.]

53. we knew this coming

[coti]

54. Only if he and the GOP admit the truth of what Trump did and are clear that such behavior is

a betrayal of our country and a corruption of the integrity of our elections, a fundamental piece of our democracy, as well as our foreign policy. Admit that, and I don't care what you call the rebuke.

[Raftergirl]

55. 😂

Did he say this with a straight face?

[roamer65]

57. Graham is a piece of shit.

Fuck him.

[JustAnotherGen]

58. The 45 presidency itself is traumatic for the country

If the worst thing that could happen is more trauma? Then I say go for it.

[Vinca]

59. The impeachment trial will be like a healing balm compared to the trauma we're subjected

to on a daily basis by Individual One.

[NightWatcher]

60. A censure, for what? I thought he hadn't done anything wrong.

If he's done wrong, remove, but y'all said it was perfect.

[Brother Buzz]

62. ... I'm not ready to make nice

I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell, and I don't have time
To go 'round and 'round and 'round…

[Hekate]

65. Liar Lindsey. Leningrad Lindsey.

If Dems agreed to only censure, that offer would disappear so fast it would make their heads spin.

[XRubicon]

66. Well they have reached bargaining

Next depression then acceptance.

[windwardbmh]

69. Someone needs to tell Lindsey

Bribing a foreign government to get dirt on a political opponent is a little more serious than lying about getting your carrot waxed.

[dalton99a]

70. Fuck that shit.

[TomSlick]

71. A trial, whether civil or criminal, is always traumatic for the people involved.

An impeachment is no different.

Despite the trauma, sometimes a trial is simply required in the interests of justice. Irrespective of the outcome, justice requires impeachment.

[Initech]

72. Aw, poor widdle snowflakes need a safe space? Too bad!

Don't commit the crime if you can't do the time!

[OliverQ]

73. The only trauma is allowing Trump and the GOP to continue to

destroy the country. They had no problem putting America through the trauma of impeachment when Bill Clinton lied about an affair.