Lindsey Graham hugged Fani Willis after being forced to testify in election case: book

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly hugged and thanked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after he was forced to testify before a special grand jury in an election interference case against Donald Trump and his alleged co-conspirators.

Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman make the claim in their new book, "Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election."

"After fighting a four-month legal battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to block his grand jury subpoena — and losing ... Graham turned on a dime 'and threw Trump under the bus,'" the book recounts, according to Politico.

"According to secret grand jury testimony in Fulton County confirmed by the authors, Graham testified that if you told Trump' that martians came and stole the election, he'd probably believe you.'"

Graham also repeated the rumor that Trump cheated in golf.

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One source recalled seeing a "strange encounter" between Graham and Willis following his testimony.

"After Graham was finished testifying," Isikoff and Klaidman explain, "he bumped into Fani Willis in a hallway and thanked her for the opportunity to tell his story."

"'That was so cathartic,' he told Willis. 'I feel so much better.' Then, to the astonishment of one source who witnessed the scene, South Carolina's senior senator hugged the Fulton county DA who was aggressively pursuing Trump," the book continues.

"She was like, 'Whatever, dude,' according to one witness of the strange encounter."