Biden: Lindsey Graham will 'regret his whole life' doing Trump's bidding on Ukraine (CNN)

[highplainsdem]

This article is based on part of Biden's interview with Don Lemon, which will air at 10 ET tongiht:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/politics/joe-biden-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html

Watch "CNN Tonight" at 10 p.m. ET to see Don Lemon's full interview with former Vice President Joe Biden.

Abbeville, South Carolina (CNN)Joe Biden said he is "embarrassed" for South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham over the Republican's willingness to do President Donald Trump's bidding and investigate the former vice president's actions in Ukraine.

"Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he's going to regret his whole life," Biden told CNN's Don Lemon in an interview Friday in South Carolina.

Asked what he would say to Graham, who in the past had expressed his admiration for his long-time Senate colleague, Biden said: "I say Lindsey, I just -- I'm just embarrassed by what you're doing, for you. I mean, my Lord."

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"They have him under their thumb right now. They know he knows that if he comes out against Trump, he's got a real tough road for reelection, number one," Biden said of Graham.

"I am disappointed, and quite frankly I'm angered, by the fact -- he knows me; he knows my son; he knows there's nothing to this," Biden said. "Trump is now essentially holding power over him that even the Ukrainians wouldn't yield to. The Ukrainians would not yield to, quote, 'investigate Biden' -- there's nothing to investigate about Biden or his son."

In the interview, Biden also jabbed former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has taken steps toward a late entrance into the 2020 Democratic presidential race, and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who recently entered the race.

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Asked about concerns he can't carry the presidential race through to the finish line, Biden said, "Come on. I welcome the competition."

"Watch me. Watch me," Biden said. "The idea that I'm not in better shape than Mayor Bloomberg, physically and otherwise?"

"Look, this -- Trump is so bad as a President, and so corrupt as a President, that everybody in America who has ever been involved in politics, especially if they have a billion dollars, thinks they could beat Trump. Maybe they could," Biden said. "And so what do you have to do? I'm the guy sitting on the top of the pyramid. I get it. I'm a big boy. Never complain, never explain."

Biden also mentioned the lack of interest in Patrick's campaign in its early days. He pointed to an event Patrick had planned at Morehouse College on Wednesday that the former Massachusetts governor canceled after only two people were in the audience.

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Editing to add a CNN Newsroom tweet with some video from the interview:

Link to tweet

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R

[JoeOtterbein]

2. I don't think that Lindsey will ever regret anything he has ever done.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Why's that?

[JoeOtterbein]

12. Corrupt to the core.

Does not care enough to regret.

[PatSeg]

14. Oh I think he will

I think he already does, but is in so deep, he feels there is no way out. God only knows what Putin/Trump has on him.

[elleng]

27. Ditto.

Hi, PatSeg

[Evolve Dammit]

15. I don't either. Like Jon Stewart observed about McConnell; "He has no soul." None. Traitors.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Lindsey Graham has been COMPROMISED by Putin....

And Joe knows this. How else has Lindsey Graham become such a Trump ass kisser?

[Iliyah]

5. As I see it right now, I truly believe Graham and the rest of the Republicans

in the senate and house would look the other way even if shithole physically harmed a USA citizen, seriously. They don't give a shit nor care anymore.

Sad.

[MontanaMama]

6. I wish Lindsey would regret what he has done.

He won't, however. Why would he?

[TheRealNorth]

7. I wouldn't go so far to say that the Ukrainians were not going to investigate Biden

Because it sounds like they were about to go onto CNN and make an announcement before the whistleblower came to light.

Biden is also kind of undermining the argument for impeachment because it makes it sound like there was no real threat of the Ukraine going along with Don the Con's scheme.

[PatSeg]

16. It would appear

that it wasn't an actual investigation that Trump & Co. wanted. It was Zelensky announcing an investigation publicly. These people don't deal in real events, they deal in perceptions. If "Biden and investigations" get repeated over and over again, a lot of people will believe it is real, much like "Hillary and emails".

You don't have to uncover any real dirt or even fake dirt, you just have to persistently imply that there is dirt.

[UniteFightBack]

32. They were announcing the 'investigation' at dump's behest. The announcement was more important

than an actual investigation.

[Cha]

8. Good way to put it.. Graham damn well should.

[BootinUp]

9. K&R

[crazytown]

10. "come on"

that look of glee on Biden's face welcoming Bloomberg to the race. Is Bloomberg planning on scorched earth for the left? I think he is.

[duforsure]

11. So will the Republicans in Congress.

They'll be reminded for what they've done, and how they voted against America.'s Democracy.

[ancianita]

13. I don't think they even have the mental or moral capacity to realize the reality of what they've

done.

They're all like "deal with it," and "get used to it." The "it" being a devolution of life for the uncounted, left out people of this country. All they depend on is the messaging of their owners about the "it" to keep people distracted from that reality, while their owners go on in a parallel universe that corporate politics won't even talk about or recognize anymore.

[patphil]

17. The one person Lindsey Graham can't run away from is himself.

He has to know how bad Trump is.
I can't imagine how he rationalizes his support of Tump

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Waiting for consequences for the whole Trump McConnell Graham gang

There are dozens of them attached to this mess. I suppose there will be surprises but .... still waiting

[Raven123]

19. Well done, Joe

[cwydro]

20. Wasn't it Biden who said there are good Republicans?

[melman]

21. I think that assumes a bit more decency on Graham's part than is deserved

But who knows. Maybe he'll have one of those epiphanies we hear about.

[demosincebirth]

22. I think plump has something on Graham really juicy

[Gothmog]

23. Please watch Don Lemon interview Joe tonight

Link to tweet

[NastyRiffraff]

24. Trump has hinted about a 3rd term

And if he loses in 2020, there are signs he won't go willingly. Lindsey Graham and too many other Republicans would likely be okay with that, while making noises about it's not their preference, but hey, he's the president.

He won't go willingly. Let's see what they do when he refuses to leave.

[mahina]

28. Don't remember who explained this process but basically the housekeeping crew will put your

stuff out on the sidewalk and the marshals would escort them out.

[ooky]

33. If he's not going to be president again I don't expect him to be in the country

on inauguration day.

[hibbing]

25. I don't think so n/t

[ProudMNDemocrat]

26. Ole Lindsey will flutter his lashes.....

As he rails against Joe Biden.



Joe Biden is 1,000 times more the man Lindsey Graham claims to be. Joe isn't called "Champ" for nothing.

[Skya Rhen]

29. Indeed.

[Scurrilous]

30. ...

[Gothmog]

31. Joe Biden: trump has something on Lindsey

Link to tweet