So it IS reported in the new blockbuster Bob Woodward book ‘Peril’ coming out…..
Of course the South Carolina Republican Senator has spend the last months kissing up to the ex-President also….
“Give me some names,” Graham reportedly told Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s then-personal attorney, and Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff during, a meeting on Jan. 2. “You need to put it in writing. You need to show me the evidence.”
After Giuliani and Trump’s legal team provided Graham with documents that allegedly raised questions about vote totals in several states, Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time, sent them to the Lee Holmes, the panel’s top legal counsel, Woodward and Robert Costa write, according to the Post.
“Holmes found the sloppiness, the overbearing tone of certainty, and the inconsistencies disqualifying,” the authors added. “The memos, he determined, ‘added up to nothing.’ ”
After a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol complex on Jan. 6, Graham voted to certify President Biden‘s Electoral College victory and said he had “tried to be helpful” to Trump but was ready to recognize Biden as the president.
“Trump and I, we had a hell of a journey,” Graham said from the Senate floor that day. “I hate it being this way. Oh my god I hate it … but today all I can say is count me out. Enough is enough. I tried to be helpful.”…
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No surprise here.
In my view,Graham really thought that the events of Jan. 6 spelled the end for Trump ,thus his “ count me out” remarks.
He ,like many others, didn’t understand what has happened to the Republican Party .The wily Graham though, when he realized that the vast majority of Republicans were buying into the lies and attempted theft of the election, quickly signed back on.
Lindsay still has his problems back in S.C. but he has shown himself to be the proverbial cat with nine lives and handily won re-election last year.