‘Corrupt’ Lindsey Graham slammed after watchdog reveals he visits Trump properties far more than any lawmaker
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been frequently mocked for transforming himself from a staunch Trump critic into one of his most devoted defenders — and a new report from ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington will only add more fuel to that fire.
According to new data compiled by CREW, Graham has made a total of 17 visits to Trump properties over the past two-plus years, which the organization notes “are 50% more than anyone else in Congress.”
Other lawmakers who have frequented Trump’s properties on a regular basis include Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who have visited Trump properties 11 times, and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), who has visited Trump properties nine times.
Graham’s devotion to enriching the president by going to his resorts drew swift ridicule from CREW’s Twitter followers — as well as from Democrat Jaime Harrison, who is running against Graham for the Senate next year.
🏆 Huge congrats, @LindseyGrahamSC, you've visited Trump Properties 50% more than *anyone else* in Congress.
Would love to see you in South Carolina sometime… https://t.co/rc67YU1Tv0
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) October 28, 2019
Check out some more reactions below.
To be fair, the kompromat they have on him is probably 50% more than anyone else in Congress.
— OnlyHereForMyHobbies (@Stewart4Hobbies) October 28, 2019
Maybe they should put a Trump property in SC , so @LindseyGrahamSC will come here and face the people who elected him. https://t.co/9SdmANdHBZ
— Ross Raciappa (@beardedoutlaw) October 28, 2019
Wow! @LindseyGrahamSC is a corrupt sycophant who had to change cell phone 📱 numbers but the decided to join the bully and hasn’t looked back. I 👀 forward to watching the ethics proceeding.
— Ed Zimmerman (@EdGrapeNutZimm) October 28, 2019
He must be covered in bed bug bites.
— ThunderTron (@TronThunder) October 28, 2019
What “Catch and Release” does Trump have on Lindsey I wonder 🤔🤔
— “President Trump” the meaning of Oxymoron (@ETrumpTD) October 28, 2019
how many visits to trump properties did lindsey make before trump became president citizens for ethics
how many visits did those 1,500 others make to trump properties before trump became president
is it more than zero
— darth™ (@darth) October 28, 2019
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On Thursday, Mississippi Today reported that state Rep. Ashley Henley, who lost her bid for re-election to Democrat Hester Jackson-McCray by just 14 votes in November, has filed a request for the GOP-controlled state legislature to overturn the results of the election and seat Henley for another term.
Henley cites what she claims are several irregularities in voter signature collection, and "missing" ballots. "There were irregularities that happened, absolutely, documented, very much so that bring into question the legitimacy of the election results," said Henley said. "That is without question."
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Specifically, the "confidential" poll showed freshman Rep. Kendra Horn (R-OK) down seven points against a generic Republican, and impeachment opposed 52 percent to 45 percent:
Nancy Pelosi is marching members of her caucus off the plank and into the abyss.
Impeachment is killing her freshman members and polling proves it.
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The lawmakers announced a bill on Wednesday called the Transparency in Executive Branch Officials’ Finances Act. It has two key components:
First, it would require all politically appointed executive branch officials, as well as the president and the vice president, to “disclose any positions they or any members of their extended families hold with foreign-owned businesses, any intellectual property they own that is protected or enforced by a foreign country, and whether any members of their families have stakes in companies that engage in significant foreign business dealings.”Second, it will “require the President and Vice President to disclose their tax returns for the previous five taxable years and prohibit political appointees from accepting payments from foreign entities.”What’s clever about the proposal is that it latches on to two important issues, creating a wedge for Republicans. As part of the GOP’s defense of President Donald Trump in the Ukraine scandal, Republicans have argued that the president’s patently corrupt efforts to get a foreign country to investigate Biden, a political rival, were legitimate because the former vice president’s son created a conflict of interest by taking part in business in Ukraine.
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