Lindsey Graham and Rudy Giuliani pay the price for embracing a toxic president
By Kathleen Parker
Columnist
October 11 at 6:19 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. — As the world seems consumed by all things Ukraine, it’s time once again to dust off the ever-popular, evergreen headline: Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
As in, what happened to the nation’s mayor, Rudy Giuliani? He held so much promise. He was the prosecutor and leader who cleaned up New York City. He was the man of the hour after the 9/11 terrorists left Manhattan smothered in toxic ash and shocked into disbelief.
Lately? He’s been behaving a bit thuggishly, frankly, more closely resembling the crooks he prosecuted than the quick-witted, intensely likable agent of change. Where have you gone, dear Rudy?
While we’re at it, what happened to Lindsey? As in Republican Sen. Lindsey O. Graham of South Carolina, once widely beloved for his penchant for truth couched in humor. For the past couple of years, he has defended the president with a rare passion that erases memory of the man who once, truthfully, tweeted that The Donald was “not fit to be president.”
Credit Graham, at least, for calling Trump on the “worst mistake of his presidency”: opening the gate for Turkey to invade Syria and attack Kurdish forces who helped the United States defeat the Islamic State. But if you want to ruin your reputation, your career and possibly your life, Trump World might have some use for you. No one who enters Trump’s orbit leaves unscathed.
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Fuck 'em.
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