Seriously- What does Putin have on Lindsey Graham?

[redstateblues]

I heard clips today with Graham praising Joe’s character effusively. And now this?

[rzemanfl]

1. Probably dirty money. If not, I don't want details. n/t

[Joinfortmill]

15. Dirty something

[Hortensis]

26. Yes. My best guess for all these with major "personality" changes

that caused their friends to not recognize them.

[dewsgirl]

2. I have seen guess's ranging from video of him with little boys to

necrophilia. Obviously it has to be something so heinous, most of us couldn't even imagine. Until then, all we have are guesses.

[redstateblues]

4. Will we ever know?

[dewsgirl]

6. I honestly have no idea, of course I hope we do.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. He's taken up residence in Trump's colon.

But it's not clear why - due to kompromat or a desperate and cynical need to be the zit on a more powerful person's ass?

[Joinfortmill]

16. LOL

[PRETZEL]

29. Gotta be the later nt

[Cartoonist]

5. He told a lie, once.

And Putin can prove it.

[dalton99a]

7. Irrefutable evidence of financial crimes

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Point man for

slush money to various Rethug Campaigns?

[The_Counsel]

8. I'm Done Thinking Lindsey Has Something to Hide.

I think he just took the money. By now he shouldn’t even care anymore if he’s gay and it’s about to go public. That won’t shock too many folks—even in South Carolina.

What he doesn’t want to get out is he took that oligarch money. It’s in the millions, I’m sure, or all this won’t be worth it...

[redstateblues]

40. Boom.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. A lot of dirty campaign money? And Putin has the receipts?

I think we'll find out that the entire Republican Party is being held hostage by Putin/Trump. Maybe we should watch their eye-blinks very closely for coded messages.

[Sherman A1]

10. My guess

is that it is all about "Green Folding Money"

[Kurt V.]

12. Nothing. The modern gop was teated on Limbaugh and raised on fox.

[NightWatcher]

13. Lindsey needs to know that we don't care about his kink or fetishes. As long as it's not a dead body

I don't care who or what he fucks or loves. As long as he's not a murderer who eats the victims, I don't care what's in his closet.

[Me.]

17. DEpends On The KInk

[mahina]

18. We don't but his constituents do.

[NurseJackie]

27. Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on the age.

[OKNancy]

14. Probably nothing to do with Putin. Much more logical is

Lindsey loves his life as a Senator. He likes the perks and the power. In order not to be primaried, he has to suck up to Trump.
He probably thinks Trump is a moron, but he is his best buddy because he likes to be seen and heard in the news and elsewhere.
Lindsey is a Republican. Never forget that either. Republicans have no character.

[tblue37]

20. The 180 he did after a single golf game with Trump strongly suggests serious kompromat. nt

[redstatebluegirl]

36. Trump told him it was all a game.

He knows how to play the deplorables, and will give the GOP whatever they want like court appointments if they leave him in power.

[smirkymonkey]

19. Whatever it is, it must be pretty bad for Lindsey to turn around and be such

a Trump ass licker. That episode with the Marine today made me sick and convinced me that he will do anything to protect Trump's reputation at his own expense, so there must be something much bigger at stake.

I wish someone on our side could find out and expose him or threaten to so that MF45 didn't have sole control over him. What could be so bad that you would sell your soul to a cretin like Trump and allow him to control your life? I would do almost anything to be out from under that nightmare.

That's what I don't get about these guys. They could always have decent jobs as lawyers or lobbyists or do something else where they don't have to put up with this crap. Surely there could be worse things than losing their jobs as politicians. It's not like they make that much money and they could still grift on the side. I can't understand the loyalty and the desperation.

[Alithea]

21. It's a puzzle for the ages. What do the McCains say, who know

Graham (and the Bidens) very well?

[Beringia]

22. He was lost in his own reverie, he didn't actually care about Biden I don't think

[bdamomma]

23. What does Putin

have on the whole GOP especially if they pushing the Ukrainian narrative that it was the Ukraine who meddled in the 2016 Election to help Russia destroy the US. Fuck they are all traitors.

[Hortensis]

31. +1000.

[PRETZEL]

35. Just taking a wild guess

but NRA money would be at the top of my list.

[redstateblues]

41. I'll bet that's part of it

[UTUSN]

24. Hard to guess?

[ck4829]

25. Good question

[Roland99]

28. Joe who?

[Hortensis]

37. Joe Biden: 'as good a man as God ever created.' This was in 2015,

and his subsequent 180-degree, genuinely vicious realignment against Biden, along with many other radical changes, is part of a time line that can be used to pinpoint when something very bad happened to ol' Lindsay. If we're shocked by who Graham became, how about an honorable Democrat who's known and worked with him in the senate for decades?

“Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life," Joe Biden said on CNN. Asked by host Don Lemon what he would say to his longtime Senate colleague, Biden responded, “I say: ‘Lindsey, I just — I’m just embarrassed by what you’re doing, for you. I mean, my Lord.’ ” Joe Biden

[GoCubsGo]

30. Most likely, a boatload of dirty money.

Both campaign money and laundered money lining his own pockets. Somebody needs to check out whether or not he has offshore bank accounts. I wouldn't be surprised if some human trafficking is involved, as well. And, I doubt he's alone in either that or the dirty money. Far from alone, most likely.

[atreides1]

32. Maybe this

Leonard Blavatnik is a supporter of the US Republican Party, and in 2015–2016 donated a total of $7.35 million to six Republican political candidates, including South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

Blavatnik is also a longtime friend and business partner of Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, one of Russia's richest men, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin!

[Hortensis]

33. :) HOW does Russia's FSB eat the GOP? One bite at a time.

I think most are thinking small in assuming Graham fell for money. The agents who compromise people in power only sometimes do it by first bribing them, and that's never the people at the top, like Graham, who can get plenty from legal donors. I'm pretty sure that Russia's legal (he helped write the laws opening the gates to foreign money nearly a decade ago now) super PAC donations came after they had him roped and tied.

Russian agents very often come with preexisting dirt used to blackmail victims into compromising themselves beyond recall, and/or they manipulate their target into doing something they can then use to force him into further cooperation. Deliberately or inadvertently leaking classified information, destroying records, selling their votes, conspiracy to commit crimes, meeting strangers in toilet stalls, business crimes, proof of election thefts, there are dozens of things that already dishonorable, weak, or foolish people do. That's going to be Graham.

As for the Republican Party itself, that was already rotting after 1980, increasingly packed with the sorts who'd agree to whatever those financing their elections required and ready for Russia's picking. I'd bet big money if I had it that Russia is hardly the only one using their own actions to blackmail some of the Republicans in power. Like their own donors or players in places like the FBI, who themselves may be compromised. Corruption among conservatives is now deeply entrenched. Russia played a big part in making that happen, but they built on what was already happening.

[LiberalArkie]

34. Really what does the intelligence community have on everyone.

The Patriot Act is still law. Therefor they still listen to everyone.

Remember DC had /has more stinger installations than anywhere else.

Everyone D & R have dirt on each other and everyone else.

The patriot act was the only thing needed to turn the U.S. into a fascist state.

[duforsure]

38. With Putin hacking their files too

He probably is part of organized election crimes, campaign funneled laundered money, and why they had trump use the Republican Party for him to run on, they had more against them to use for control, and to compromise them with. Trump isn't republican, and he just is doing what Putin wants for control and to use for manipulation for his benefit.

[bdamomma]

39. Putin

is an ex-KGB'er, do we need to say anymore??? He's a thug/criminal and he wants to take down our country. He wants to get even with our country using his POS puppet.