Lindsey Graham Video Praising Joe Biden Resurfaces: 'As Good a Man as God Ever Created' [View all]

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Full Newsweek headline, which didn't qutie fit in the subject line:

Lindsey Graham Video Praising Joe Biden Resurfaces Amid Ukraine Corruption Probe: 'As Good a Man as God Ever Created'


https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-video-joe-biden-ukraine-corruption-impeachment-trump-1473468

A video of an emotional Senator Lindsey Graham speaking about his admiration for former Vice President Joe Biden has resurfaced on social media and is gaining attention after the South Carolina Republican kicked off a Ukraine-related probe into the 2020 Democratic candidate.

"If you can't admire Joe Biden as a person there's probably—you got a problem and you need to do some self-evaluation because what's not to like?" a choked-up Graham says during the video, filmed by HuffPo back in 2016 and now shared again on Twitter thousands of times.

Graham then talks about Biden's loss of his son, Beau Biden, to brain cancer. "I called him after Beau died and he basically said, well, Beau was my soul. We talked for a long time," Graham says.

"He came to my ceremony and said some of the most incredibly heartfelt things that anybody could ever say to me. And he's the nicest person I think I've ever met in politics. He is as good a man as God ever created.

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As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham on Thursday wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting documents related to Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and other Obama administration officials and the former Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko.

Today I began an investigation into the Bidens. Did the Biden's do anything wrong? NO. Am I doing this to make @realDonaldTrump look innocent? YES. WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!! IT WILL MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A MONSTER... pic.twitter.com/ZBEe80o4zZ
— Lindsey Graham's Conscience (@LGsConscience) November 22, 2019

Graham is pursuing the dubious allegation that while in office Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin to disrupt a corruption investigation into Burisma while his son was on the board.

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Link to that tweet, with the video, from the Twitter account Lindsey Graham's Conscience:

Link to tweet

I posted that tweet in General Discussion last night, since I'd already seen people posting there about Graham's opening this investigation.

Unfortunately, that thread was locked there, but not before it had several replies and 20 recs.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212717743