'Shame': Lindsey Graham slammed by ex-colleague for attacking military to defend Trump
October 21, 2024
The day after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ran to the Sunday cable shows to defend Donald Trump over his "enemies within" smears aimed at lawmakers and military leaders who have been critical of him, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) gave both of her former colleagues a dressing down.
Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McCaskill noted Graham lashing out at military leaders, specifically retired Gen. Mark Milley, on "Meet the Press" where he raged, "What are you doing? You're trying to convince me that Donald Trump's rhetoric is the danger to this country? The danger to this country is the policies of Biden and Harris."
Also noting Johnson's combative defense of the former president on CNN's "State of the Union," the former senator said both men should be ashamed of themselves.
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'Let's take a trip down reality lane" she suggested to hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. "All you have to do — thank goodness we have a way to check this — all you have to do is ask his [Trump's] chief of staff the first time he was in the White House. Ask his counsel, attorney general, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest military leadership in our country."
"All you have to do is ask those five people what he tried to do in his first administration," she continued. "And Lindsey Graham knows this. Mike Johnson knows this. He tried to get all of them to do what he is now promising to do; they all said no."
"Here's what's different: he will not put people like that in the Oval Office next time around, he's proudly said he won't," she added. "He's proudly said that they were, you know, picking the best people, and all of these people were terrible. Well, they were terrible because they told him he couldn't do these kinds of things in the United States of America."
"Shame on Mike Johnson. I mean, that was really embarrassing for him. Shame on the Wall Street Journal and really shame on poor Lindsey Graham, who stood up the day after January 6th, and said he was done with it," she concluded.
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