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RandySF

(57,615 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 10:32 AM Feb 2020

Jill Biden says she no longer considers Lindsey Graham a friend

Washington (CNN)Former second lady Jill Biden said Monday that she no longer considers herself a friend of Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who has sought investigations into her husband and stepson.

President Donald Trump's attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, his potential 2020 general election rival, are at the center of the President's impeachment trial. Trump and his allies have repeatedly made unfounded and false claims to allege that the Bidens acted corruptly in Ukraine.
Jill Biden told CNN's John Berman on "New Day" Monday that Graham's repeated attacks on her family have strained their relationship.

"Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina whom I think you count as a friend," Berman said before Jill Biden interjected.

"We did, yes," she said.

"Well, you know, Lindsey -- I don't know what happened to Lindsey. And we used to be great friends and friends with John McCain," she added. "I mean we traveled together with the (Senate) Foreign Relations Committee. We've had dinner. You know, and now he's changed."



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Jill Biden says she no longer considers Lindsey Graham a friend (Original Post) RandySF Feb 2020 OP
Good for her! Mike Nelson Feb 2020 #1
Duress Puppyjive Feb 2020 #2
+1 sandensea Feb 2020 #4
Lindsey is like a cartoon Fearless Leader bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #3
Graham: Slouching Towards Pariah. nt oasis Feb 2020 #5
It's hard to believe anyone could be friends with Repukes RhodeIslandOne Feb 2020 #6
My sentiments exactly! brutus smith Feb 2020 #7
It's hard to believe anyone can be friends with republicans, the way they treated Obama. Autumn Feb 2020 #12
Graham included. brutus smith Feb 2020 #25
The old Lindsey got all choked up talking about what a good man Joe was. JaneQPublic Feb 2020 #8
Lindsey is slime. True Blue American Feb 2020 #26
True dat. (nt) JaneQPublic Feb 2020 #29
Lindsey has a new set of friends, and they are all fascists. nt NCjack Feb 2020 #9
Its concerning why they ever considered him a friend LeftTurn3623 Feb 2020 #10
Things used to be different. patphil Feb 2020 #15
It's been like this in Wisconsin Jimbo S Feb 2020 #21
Does The Siberian Candidate The Wizard Feb 2020 #11
Lindsey is just a classic "beta" male. Texin Feb 2020 #13
You say "beta" male; I say "toady." JaneQPublic Feb 2020 #14
What they have against him must be so damaging Butterflylady Feb 2020 #16
He's from SC. cwydro Feb 2020 #24
I am disappointed in Graham Gothmog Feb 2020 #17
No mater how this nomination turns out two things are certain. Joe Biden has served his country well usaf-vet Feb 2020 #18
Me either, snub them all, party should dissolve out of embarrassment at the end of this cluster? Brainfodder Feb 2020 #19
Little Lindsey is a fake friend, he only pretends soto get something from you, a typical republiCon. yaesu Feb 2020 #20
Let me share Traildogbob Feb 2020 #22
"I used to be friends with a malicious dickwad who hurt millions of Americans... Act_of_Reparation Feb 2020 #23
This is NOT about a PRIVATE citizen. this is about TraitorTrump and his criminal cabal, including underthematrix Feb 2020 #27
I guess Progress_Dem Feb 2020 #28
Jellyfish have more backbone than Lindsey Graham. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #30
 

Mike Nelson

(9,903 posts)
1. Good for her!
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 10:39 AM
Feb 2020

... and by the way, how about Jill for President. I like Joe, but he's not at the top of my list... I think she might be!

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Puppyjive

(484 posts)
2. Duress
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 11:36 AM
Feb 2020

Maybe they are under duress. Maybe they are being threatened by Russia.

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sandensea

(21,526 posts)
4. +1
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 11:40 AM
Feb 2020

Putin has footage of Lindsey gollywobbling with two Russian rent boys - and he knows it.

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bucolic_frolic

(42,663 posts)
3. Lindsey is like a cartoon Fearless Leader
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 11:39 AM
Feb 2020

twist and spin for power and advantage to the point of damaging his own credibility

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oasis

(49,150 posts)
5. Graham: Slouching Towards Pariah. nt
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 11:40 AM
Feb 2020
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RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
6. It's hard to believe anyone could be friends with Repukes
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 11:45 AM
Feb 2020

.....since the 90s when Newt Gingrich turned Washington into a cesspool of spite and hatred.

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brutus smith

(685 posts)
7. My sentiments exactly!
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 11:56 AM
Feb 2020

How can you be "friends" with people who constantly voted against us?

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Autumn

(44,748 posts)
12. It's hard to believe anyone can be friends with republicans, the way they treated Obama.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:08 PM
Feb 2020

Biden was Obama's VP, he had to have been aware of what republicans had become during those 8 years.

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JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
8. The old Lindsey got all choked up talking about what a good man Joe was.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:01 PM
Feb 2020

&list=PL9PwbtZZOXs4JNBvwTWtQbNQH9o7K15cg

Now, Lindsey calls for Joe's only surviving son to be thrown to the Senate GOP lions as a desperate attempt to distract from Trump's guilt.
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True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
26. Lindsey is slime.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:37 PM
Feb 2020

Not fit to be anyone’s friend.

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NCjack

(10,279 posts)
9. Lindsey has a new set of friends, and they are all fascists. nt
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:03 PM
Feb 2020
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LeftTurn3623

(628 posts)
10. Its concerning why they ever considered him a friend
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:07 PM
Feb 2020
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patphil

(6,028 posts)
15. Things used to be different.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:25 PM
Feb 2020

There was a time when there was a certain amount of decorum in Congress. People could have different views on various topics and still have respect for each other.
There was a lot less of the mean spirited behavior that is the norm today.
People could "respectfully disagree" and still be friends.

That's all gone now. Partisan battle lines have been drawn and it's almost impossible to cross them.
If you want to be a "good Republican" in Congress, then you have to adhere to the idea that you get what you want and f**k everyone else. You're not allowed to be bi-partisan in politics, or even socially.
Mess up, and you could be gone in the next election.
Lindsey Graham decided he would rather be a Senator than have friends who didn't adhere to the far right viewpoint.
So, he walked away from people like John McCain and the Biden's.

Unfortunately, this is the way things are in Washington now. And we have all lost as a result of it.

Patrick Phillips

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Jimbo S

(2,952 posts)
21. It's been like this in Wisconsin
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:42 PM
Feb 2020

going 15 or 20 years, now.

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The Wizard

(12,482 posts)
11. Does The Siberian Candidate
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:07 PM
Feb 2020

have a video of the "Gentleman" from South Carolina getting kinky in a Moscow hotel room? Methinks the "gentleman" doth protest too much.

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Texin

(2,585 posts)
13. Lindsey is just a classic "beta" male.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:20 PM
Feb 2020

He hangs onto an alpha-protector, someone who has more power than himself, and someone who is the unchallenged so-called pack leader. He did that with McCain (much like Joe Lieberman, who also seemed like a beta personality, as well), and now he submissively bows to tRump - but he also derives any power he feels he has from tRump, as all the others before him. Lindsey reminds me of a remora, flitting around and swimming beneath the fins of a shark, glad to have the tidbits that fall out of the big fish's mouth.

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JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
14. You say "beta" male; I say "toady."
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:25 PM
Feb 2020

To-MAY-to, To-MAW-to.

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Butterflylady

(3,523 posts)
16. What they have against him must be so damaging
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:26 PM
Feb 2020

That he has lost all respectability along with his soul. Remember he comes from a state that has the Billy Graham Highway, need I say more.

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cwydro

(51,308 posts)
24. He's from SC.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:21 PM
Feb 2020

Billy Graham was from NC, and that’s where the highway is.

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Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
17. I am disappointed in Graham
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:27 PM
Feb 2020
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usaf-vet

(6,093 posts)
18. No mater how this nomination turns out two things are certain. Joe Biden has served his country well
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:32 PM
Feb 2020
...over many years and in many ways.

and

Lindsey Graham is a hypocritical coward and a likely traitor for his involvement with tRump and the Russians.

A traitor who has likely ignored every oath he has ever taken.
1. His oath as a lawyer.
2. His enlistment and re-enlistment oaths to the military.
3. His oath of office as a member of Congress. His oath after each term and re-election.
4. His oath which he took before the impeachment trial.

Most of those oaths included the phrase "support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic."

The only oath he apparently hasn't ignored is:
An oath of complete and total allegiance to Donald J. Trump the impeached president of the United States.

History will put them both in the same Chapter. Political American Traitors
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Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
19. Me either, snub them all, party should dissolve out of embarrassment at the end of this cluster?
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:32 PM
Feb 2020
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yaesu

(8,020 posts)
20. Little Lindsey is a fake friend, he only pretends soto get something from you, a typical republiCon.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:34 PM
Feb 2020
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Traildogbob

(8,569 posts)
22. Let me share
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:05 PM
Feb 2020

My younger brother, kicked out of Air Force, after being picked up by Russian Troller off the coast of Brindisi Italy. Worked at Nuclear plant in SC, went to Russia for a bride and her daughter. Told not to go and not to take laptop. Got fired, lost clearance and now works at Christian Radio in Charollte. Kicker, the Daughter had cancer. Graham fast tracked their entrance into America. Yet he rants about brown people entering and taking from our health system. My brother, pro Putin! Coincidence? Like Malcome Nance say's, "coincidences are very well planned". And no, I never speak to my brother now.

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Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
23. "I used to be friends with a malicious dickwad who hurt millions of Americans...
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:14 PM
Feb 2020

...but now I'm not because he said nasty things about my son and husband."

In summary.

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underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
27. This is NOT about a PRIVATE citizen. this is about TraitorTrump and his criminal cabal, including
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 01:56 PM
Feb 2020

LeningradLindesy going after a former Vice President and his family. I agree with her. This would break any level of friendship.

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Progress_Dem

(96 posts)
28. I guess
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 02:05 PM
Feb 2020

Graham isn't one of those Senators Biden thinks he could work with.

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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
30. Jellyfish have more backbone than Lindsey Graham.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 03:23 PM
Feb 2020
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