How much does it cost to buy Lindsey Graham? Apparently $870,500.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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[Aristus]

1. A fainting couch, a string of pearls, and a mint julep will work just as well for less.

Oh, and a fan.

Preferably paper.

With a funeral home logo on it.

[Blue Owl]

2. Ha ha ha...

This shrill hothouse flower comes cheap, don't he?

[Doodley]

3. That is the price to sell America to Russia.

[CatMor]

4. He's sure one cheap date ....

disgusting.

[IluvPitties]

5. This needs to be investigated.

[oasis]

6. The giant whirring sound you hear is

Sen. John McCain spinning in his grave.

[mitch96]

7. That's how much money he does not have to make phone calls or campaign for..

Most congress and senators complain that they spend HALF their time in Washington just begging for money to get re elected. Getting a bucket load of cash would relieve a great weight off of them.. Problem now is the donor, in this case Russia has leverage over them..ie
KOMPROMAT!!! That's why he is so Russia/tRump/pUtin friendly... uggh..
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[BigmanPigman]

8. Who investigates crimes like this?

We are really screwed, aren't we?

[Amaryllis]

9. ANd this is what they have on Mitch:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211668442

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. thanks

I had failed to bookmark that before.

[Stonepounder]

10. Someone might want to tell Lindsay

that from the farthest SW point in Ky to the nearest point where you could cross the border into Mexico is more than 1,000 miles. Not sure why the wall would be better for Ky school children than actually having a school.

[spanone]

11. K&R...👍🏼

[PeeJ52]

12. I want to see more on this CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX (yeah, right)...

[Generic Brad]

13. He's a cheap date

He was so over the top on the Sunday morning news shows today - wanting to investigate the investigators. Sounds like the walls may be closing in on him.

[marylandblue]

14. You probably.also need throw in a set of floor mats and a pee tape

to those kind of results.

[Honeycombe8]

15. Okay, now we're beginning to see the reason(s) that Graham became a lapdog for Trump. nt

[YOHABLO]

16. Ah Ha! So what we speculated comes true. They're all in it up to their teeth.

[shanny]

17. Well.

Maybe he held out for a higher payoff than many...so, kudos, I guess? Also he seems an honest politician: he stays paid for.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Wang and Dong

From the PDF :

Lastly, the report notes that Sen. Graham received illegal campaign donations from a Chinese-American virologist.

The person who arranged the illegal campaign donations scheme was a biotech company CEO named Dr. Jian-Yun Dong aka Dr. John Dong and his wife Dahner Wang. Eventually, Dong was convicted for arranging illegal foreign campaign contributions to Graham and was sentenced to 18 months in jail for that charge. He received an additional 70-month federal jail sentence in his second trial on federal corruption charges, for converting research funds into a lobbying slush fund and a source of funds for real estate improvements.

Sen. Graham helped Dr. Dong obtain earmarks totaling $19.6 million in federal grants from NIH and the military. His wife Wang turned on him, cooperating with prosecutors and leading to the scientist’s conviction and imprisonment.

Lindsey Graham was not charged in the criminal case against Dr. Dong, because prosecutors “found no evidence” he knew of multiple illegal schemes by his political donor.

[Hassler]

20. Lindseed is probably rehearsing his outrage soliloquy.

This time with tears and blubbering. Kind of Judge Boof meets Richard Nixon.

[Hortensis]

21. I'm thinking blackmail, not just power money. Perhaps first,

then the assistance of money to keep an asset in power. Heavens know our own kleptocratic billionaires will donate all the money he could need as long as he continues to serve them.

It makes sense given the corruption of so many of these people and his truly aberrant behaviors. He's one of a number of nationally known people of power and/or influence whose friends don't recognize them. (Jonathan Turley's another who was just bizarrely arguing that Trump should win his case for authoritarian power grabs in SCOTUS.) Guessing there are plenty of others whose names aren't well known.

Wouldn't have to be Russia jerking their bits, either, though the same and/or different "dirt" might be held by enemies foreign and domestic.

Add to that, of course, the power of those who want to keep power to persuade themselves it's only right that they do.