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'You wailed about Benghazi for FIVE YEARS': Lindsey Graham ripped for demand impeachment be set aside
January 17, 2021
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was hammered on Twitter in Sunday morning after posting a letter he sent to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asking that there be no impeachment trial of Donald Trump for sedition, saying the country needs to "heal."
According to the South Carolina Republican who is now a part of the minority party in the U.S. Senate," after the 2020 election, "The Senate should vote to dismiss the article of impeachment once it is received in the Senate. We will be delaying indefinitely, if not forever, the healing of this great Nation if we do otherwise."
As might be expected, critics of Trump and Graham were in no mood for Graham dictating what happens next -- as you can see below:
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="530ac39c22cab0fa5bc3495f6a51eefd" id="fbcce"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350846034952404992"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LindseyGrahamSC Oh look, the cancer has thoughts about healing.</div> — Jamison Foser (@Jamison Foser)<a href="https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/statuses/1350846034952404992">1610901766.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1749e2d95ba3394dd1d07c465a82d9c4" id="c872e"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350841190430564354"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LindseyGrahamSC We don’t negotiate with cowards and terrorists</div> — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch.com)<a href="https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/statuses/1350841190430564354">1610900611.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2a62405ef4878174330efc416a1c6565" id="e1af4"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350842234380443655"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LindseyGrahamSC Hey Lindsey Graham, you didn't give a shit about "HEALING" when you and your GOP comrades were rus… https://t.co/tLFDn9tWMF</div> — BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@BrooklynDad_Defiant!)<a href="https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/statuses/1350842234380443655">1610900860.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ee07c20b92409b7042777b052f890e07" id="ac18a"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350841919782457347"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LindseyGrahamSC What do they have on you? https://t.co/JXrjPgzYBR</div> — 🦦Marie-Caroline🦥🏴☠️ (@🦦Marie-Caroline🦥🏴☠️)<a href="https://twitter.com/Noway7791/statuses/1350841919782457347">1610900785.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6f2ad241c5266fa7586551e80277bdb8" id="5e6e0"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350837776200192001"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LindseyGrahamSC You are a partisan toadie. What you have done to our nation, in the name of keeping your job, will… https://t.co/UAGPwl9Inr</div> — (((Howard Forman))) (@(((Howard Forman))))<a href="https://twitter.com/thehowie/statuses/1350837776200192001">1610899797.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<p><br/></p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="aae2b8c832edc3206e3347eb23a046f5" id="1b399"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350837502018543621"><div style="margin:1em 0">@LindseyGrahamSC You wailed about Benghazi for FIVE YEARS but you're ready to dismiss more deaths on American soil after two weeks?</div> — Grey_Obelisk (@Grey_Obelisk)<a href="https://twitter.com/Grey_Obelisk/statuses/1350837502018543621">1610899732.0</a></blockquote></div><p><br/></p>
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'He's irrelevant': MSNBC panel laughs at 'minority member' Lindsey Graham's whine about Trump impeachment
January 17, 2021
A panel discussion on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show" erupted into laughter on Sunday morning after journalist Connie Schultz -- wife of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) -- dismissed any discussion about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) as "irrelevant" now that he lost power after being relegated to the minority party in the Senate.
Joined by fellow panelists Donna Edwards and Naval College professor Tom Nichols, the Pulitzer Prize winner and the other two guests were asked by host Jonathan Capehart about Graham's recent comments about a post-Trump America.
"Donna, to talk about your reaction to what Senator Graham had to say about proceeding with the impeachment trial," Capehart asked.
"Well, I think Senator Graham is actually in the least position to declare what the Congress, the Senate should do or not," the former Democratic lawmaker replied. "The reality is that this president was impeached by the House of Representatives already and it's the obligation of the United States Senate to hold him to account and to push for a conviction so that they can make sure that he never again holds public office."
Chiming in, Nichols added, "I think we shouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about what Lindsey Graham thinks because that seems to change based on the time of day. This is the same Lindsey Graham who had said he had enough, it was over, he couldn't do it anymore. Then the next day he was on Air Force One with the president. So, other than that he's obviously voting against conviction, I'm not sure that we get very far trying to parse the inner logic of Lindsey Graham's position on anything."
Presses for a comment, Schultz stated, "I think Lindsey Graham changes his viewpoint quite regularly at this point. The people he needs to be talking to are people that can help him with this disorder."
"He's irrelevant, he's in the minority and I'm done listening to him," she added to laughter from the host and her fellow panelists.
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Hogan Gidley: Trump 'can’t' denounce Capitol attack because he doesn’t have Twitter
January 17, 2021
Trump campaign spokesperson Hogan Gidley on Sunday said that President Donald Trump does not have the ability to denounce the riot he incited on Capitol Hill because his Twitter account has been revoked.
During an interview on Fox News, Gidley defended Trump by insisting that his false election claims had come from "attorneys and advisers."
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"And so he's going to go out and say, here's what I know and here's what I've been told," Gidley explained. "The president doesn't make these things up, whether it be, you know, advice relating to the coronavirus that he got from Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx or whether it be related to the way the election was conducted. This information is out there."
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"But as it related to the attack on the Capitol, the president called it out in real time -- beforehand!" he continued. "He said we're going to go to the Capitol and march peacefully. And we're going to be patriots, we're going to do this the right way and make our voices heard."
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According to Gidley, "the media are trying to have it both ways" by calling on Trump to condemn the violence while saying he doesn't deserve the right to access to social media.
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"On the one hand, [media says] he should be censored by big tech and not be allowed to talk," Gidley said. "He also shouldn't say anything because it's divisive. And then when he doesn't say anything and can't say anything because the platform have removed him, they says, 'Where's the president? Why aren't we hearing from him?'"
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"The whole thing is disingenuous," he added before launching an attack on Democrats.
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