Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump ‘a lying motherf***er’ during Ukraine impeachment scandal and said the ex-president could ‘kill 50 people on our side and it wouldn’t matter’, new book claims
- ‘He could kill fifty people on our side and it wouldn’t matter,’ the South Carolina Republican said according to a new book
- ‘I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?’ Trump famously said during a campaign stop in 2016
- ‘He’s a lying motherf***er,’ Graham said, adding that still, Trump was ‘fun to hang out with’
Sen. Lindsey Graham reportedly backed up Donald Trump‘s claim that he could commit murder and still have an ardent fan base and called the former president a ‘lying motherf***er’ who is nonetheless ‘fun to hang out with.’
‘He could kill fifty people on our side and it wouldn’t matter,’ the South Carolina Republican told journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser according to their new book ‘The Divider,’ obtained by The Guardian.
‘I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?’ Trump famously said during a campaign stop in Iowa in 2016. ‘It’s, like, incredible.’
Sen. Lindsey Graham reportedly backed up Donald Trump’s claim that he could commit murder and still have an ardent fan base and called the former president a ‘lying motherf***er’ who is nonetheless ‘fun to hang out with’
Graham had been recalling a story to the husband-and-wife author duo about Trump boasting of his closeness to evangelical pastors he’d met with the day before in 2019. ‘Those f***ing Christians love me,’ Trump had told Graham.
Graham stood by his assertion that it would be ‘insane’ to impeach Trump for his July 2019 phone call with the Ukraine president, but admitted he knew the former president’s faults.
‘He’s a lying motherf***er,’ Graham said, adding that still, Trump was ‘fun to hang out with.’
Graham and Trump’s fraught back-and-forth relationship has been mystifying to onlookers, beginning with Graham refusing to back Trump in 2016 and deeming him racist and crazy.
But Graham became one of the former president’s closest allies during his presidency. Still, he voted to certify the 2020 election results against Trump’s wishes and blamed him for the January 6th Capitol riot.
‘Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my God, I hate it. From my point of view he’s been been a consequential president. But today, first thing you’ll see. All I can say, is count me out, enough is enough,’ Graham at the time.
‘I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?’ Trump famously said
Graham has defended Trump in the wake of the FBI raiding his Mar-a-Lago home, issuing a warning that there would be ‘riots in the streets’ if the former president were indicted.
Other revelations in Glasser and Baker’s forthcoming tell-all include that Trump was persuaded by an old college friend, New York cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, that buying Greenland was a good idea and the former president was reportedly so paranoid that Iran would retaliate for the US killing of its top general, Qasem Soleimani, that he told guests at a Mar-a-Lago holiday party in 2020 he was leaving early in fear of an assassination attempt by Tehran.
Rarely restrained in his commentary either in public or in private, Trump also reportedly told people around him that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was an example of why women should be careful with plastic surgery and said he would not pick Nikki Haley, his United Nations ambassador, as a running mate because she had a ‘complexion problem.’
In other excerpts of the book, Trump belittled his son-in-law Jared Kushner as only being concerned about his ‘New York liberal crowd.’
Melania Trump also reportedly told her husband he was ‘blowing’ the United States COVID-19 response, a new report suggested on Wednesday.
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