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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 09:57 AM Feb 2019

Little Lindsey is going coo-coo over the "attempted bureaucratic coup" against Individual 1.

Lindsey Graham boosts Donald Trump by denouncing ‘attempted bureaucratic coup’ against the president



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/lindsey-graham-boosts-donald-trump-denouncing-attempted-bureaucratic-coup-president/

“I think everybody in the country needs to know if it happened,” Graham told anchor Margaret Brennan. “It’s stunning to me that one of the chief law enforcement officers of the land- the acting head of the FBI- would go on national television and say, ‘Oh by the way I remember a conversation with the deputy attorney general about trying to find if we could replace the president under the 25th Amendment.’ We’re a democracy. People enforce the law — can’t take it into their own hands. And was this an attempted bureaucratic coup? I don’t know. I don’t know who’s telling the truth. I know [former Deputy Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein vehemently denied it but we’re going to get to the bottom of it.”

Graham added, “I do know there was a lot of monkey business about FISA warrants being issued against Carter Page, about dossiers coming from Russia that were unverified. Mr. Mueller is going to look at the Trump campaign as he should to see if they violated any laws during the 2016 election. And I’m going to do everything I can to get to the bottom of the Department of Justice FBI behavior toward President Trump and his campaign.”

When Brennan asked if Graham was concerned about harming the FBI’s credibility with his accusations, the South Carolina Republican insisted that he was only strengthening the bureau.

“The FBI has gotten off track in the past,” Graham told Brennan. “It’s one of the greatest organizations in the world. The Hoover years have proven to be pretty dark periods for the FBI. The latter part of the Hoover days where politicians were being blackmailed. There is no organization beyond scrutiny. There is no organization that can’t withstand scrutiny. And the FBI will come out stronger.”
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Little Lindsey is going coo-coo over the "attempted bureaucratic coup" against Individual 1. (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2019 OP
Devin Nunes 2.0 emulatorloo Feb 2019 #1
While he's getting to the bottom of what's going on in Justice, phylny Feb 2019 #2
I can't take him seriously. His delicate Southern Gentleman ways... NurseJackie Feb 2019 #3
anything for a distraction, that what this is and everything else GOP says/does. The know they are beachbum bob Feb 2019 #4
Isn't the 25th Amendment a legal process of the Constitution, the law of the land? Historic NY Feb 2019 #5
Yes - and he knows it JustAnotherGen Feb 2019 #11
Lindsey the enraged hypocrite... agingdem Feb 2019 #6
Lindsey doth complain too much and rabidly come to trDump's defense... magicarpet Feb 2019 #7
Squirrel!!! ...nt 2naSalit Feb 2019 #8
What about those times that Graham thought Trump was "nuts"? kentuck Feb 2019 #9
A lifetime of hyperbole and eggs placed in the wrong basket JDC Feb 2019 #10

phylny

(8,380 posts)
2. While he's getting to the bottom of what's going on in Justice,
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 10:10 AM
Feb 2019

Bob Mueller and every other patriotic American will get to the bottom of what the Trump campaign was doing with the Russians.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
3. I can't take him seriously. His delicate Southern Gentleman ways...
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 10:12 AM
Feb 2019

I can't take him seriously. His delicate Southern Gentleman ways and mannerisms really don't mesh well with faux anger and forced outrage.

He's a clown, and not a very good one.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
4. anything for a distraction, that what this is and everything else GOP says/does. The know they are
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 10:21 AM
Feb 2019

SINKING

agingdem

(7,849 posts)
6. Lindsey the enraged hypocrite...
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 10:33 AM
Feb 2019

you and Mitch and your merry band of Republican obstructionists conspired to block any and all of President Obama's legislative agenda not to mention the non vote on Merrick Garland..and now your panties are in a twist because of what you call a "coup"... to quote Inigo Montoya: "you keep using that word..I do not think it means what you think it means"...

magicarpet

(14,145 posts)
7. Lindsey doth complain too much and rabidly come to trDump's defense...
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 11:00 AM
Feb 2019

What kind of dirt do Putin or trDump done got on poor Lindsey the treasonous traitor ?

kentuck

(111,089 posts)
9. What about those times that Graham thought Trump was "nuts"?
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 11:17 AM
Feb 2019

He was very critical of Trump in the early days of his presidency and the late days of his campaign. He did not think Trump was a very stable person. What changed for Lindsey? When did Trump become the strong stable leader he considers him to be today?

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