What Lindsey Graham Did In Georgia To Keep Trump In Power - TPM – Talking Points Memo

One week after the 2020 election was called, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was thinking about Georgia.


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Last!!!1111!!!

(For a while, at least.)

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Really? it’s a county DA. Is this some kind of legal “ass-extrusion?” On the other hand, Lindsey’s a Republican so reasons.

“Should it stand, the subpoena issued today would erode the constitutional balance of power and the ability of a Member of Congress to do their job,” Graham’s lawyers’ statement reads.

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I really want to see little Lindsey perp walked like a common criminal because he is.

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“If Republicans don’t challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again,” Graham said in a Nov. 8 Fox News appearance.

Damn straight, Lindsey. Which is why we’ve got to stop you.

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Graham is making it known it’ll be a cold day in hell before he complies with this subpoena.

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Dare we hope that Fulton County, Georgia, can actually pull off the prosecution of both Trump and Graham, persuade a jury to convict them, and send them to a Georgia state prison? Dare we hope?

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Perhaps he’ll sashay.

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Graham should be terrified of this, because multiple people are going to testify that he did not ask questions in line with his position in the Senate. Asking how votes could be thrown out is not part of his job…asking about details about the vote count, the process, errors, that would be, but it crosses the line to try to get GA officials to remove legal votes from the total to help a candidate. It’s no wonder he’s going to fight the subpoena, and he may succeed with conservative judges, but that won’t stop Fanni Willis from indicting him for interfering with election officials.

And, honestly, they should indict him, regardless of him being a Senator. He tried to work behind the scenes to overturn a legal election result, and our system should have no patience for any of that. It looks like GA is going to lead the way in prosecuting these people for their attempted cheating, and the state court system is likely to back that up. This also looks like the first prosecution we’ll see, but hopefully not the last.

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“As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Graham was well within his rights to discuss with state officials the processes and procedures around administering elections,” the statement reads.

Ummmm, no. Just no.

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Then maybe this BFF of TMFWWNBN should be disbarred.

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I don’t understand what grounds Graham claims for quashing the subpoena. It seems to me because he’s on the judiciary committee has nothing to do with the subpoena. The other question I have is aren’t grand jury witnesses usually given immunity to encourage the lieutenants to eschew the fifth and flip on the Don? If true it’s good that neither Trump nor Pence were subpoenaed…

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I’d like see him acquire at least a scintilla of dignity and a scruple of patriotism.

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I’d like to see him flipped. He’d be really good at it.

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Yes but this is a real subpoena not a phony baloney optional Congressional one. You comply or you go to jail until you do.

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“If Republicans don’t challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again,” ‘Butters’ said in a Nov. 8 Fox News appearance.

This should be the ‘Remember the Maine’ moment, but quoting Keifer Sutherland, ‘this is America’.

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Fainting spell with hand to brow in…3,2,1.

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Well gee he could show up and tell the Grand Jury that unless it is not the truth.

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Who would the DA send to make the collar? The Co. Sheriff?

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He’ll do neither. Mark it.

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