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Raw Story: Lindsey Graham called out by legal expert Lisa Rubin for covering for Pete Hegseth
Raw Story - Lindsey Graham called out by legal expert for covering for Pete Hegseth
Tom Boggioni
December 7, 2024 12:33PM ET
In a column for MSNBC, legal analyst Lisa Rubin took Sen. Lindsey Graham to task for attempting to dismiss accusations against Donald Trump's choice to be defense secretary, saying the South Carolina Republican should know better when he attempted a specific line of defense.
Addressing Graham changing his tune about Fox News personality Pete Hegseth despite a wealth of accusations of sexual improprieties and public drunkenness, she noted the GOP senator told Fox host Sean Hannity, "The allegations against Pete are anonymous sources. I’m not going to make any decisions based on an anonymous source. If you’re not willing to raise your hand under oath and make the accusation, it doesn’t count. I’ve heard everything about all of these people. None of it counts. No rumors, no innuendo.”
According to Rubin, as a lawyer himself who has served as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) in the military, Graham knows he using a faulty defense.
As she wrote, "... to discount serious allegations simply because the sources were granted anonymity is misguided."
"And, of course, at least one of the anonymous people featured in reporting about Hegseth isn’t anonymous to Hegseth: The Jane Doe who has accused him of rape and with whom he signed an agreement; Hegseth and his lawyer are well aware of her identity. (To be clear, there’s no indication Jane Doe herself has been a source in media reports about her accusation,) she explained before accusing, "Yet Graham might be purposefully eliding those facts because it allows him and other conservatives to continue their campaign against the 'mainstream media'or 'fake news' for its purported bias against Trump and/or Republicans writ large."
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Tom Boggioni
December 7, 2024 12:33PM ET
In a column for MSNBC, legal analyst Lisa Rubin took Sen. Lindsey Graham to task for attempting to dismiss accusations against Donald Trump's choice to be defense secretary, saying the South Carolina Republican should know better when he attempted a specific line of defense.
Addressing Graham changing his tune about Fox News personality Pete Hegseth despite a wealth of accusations of sexual improprieties and public drunkenness, she noted the GOP senator told Fox host Sean Hannity, "The allegations against Pete are anonymous sources. I’m not going to make any decisions based on an anonymous source. If you’re not willing to raise your hand under oath and make the accusation, it doesn’t count. I’ve heard everything about all of these people. None of it counts. No rumors, no innuendo.”
According to Rubin, as a lawyer himself who has served as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) in the military, Graham knows he using a faulty defense.
As she wrote, "... to discount serious allegations simply because the sources were granted anonymity is misguided."
"And, of course, at least one of the anonymous people featured in reporting about Hegseth isn’t anonymous to Hegseth: The Jane Doe who has accused him of rape and with whom he signed an agreement; Hegseth and his lawyer are well aware of her identity. (To be clear, there’s no indication Jane Doe herself has been a source in media reports about her accusation,) she explained before accusing, "Yet Graham might be purposefully eliding those facts because it allows him and other conservatives to continue their campaign against the 'mainstream media'or 'fake news' for its purported bias against Trump and/or Republicans writ large."
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