Morning Joe hosts gang up on Lindsey Graham over his latest 'flip-flop' for Trump

On Thursday morning, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and his co-hosts dropped the hammer on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for bowing to Donald Trump and withdrawing his support for a Ukraine aid package because the disgraced former president told him to.

Noting that Graham has made a career out of being a hawk when it comes to foreign aggression, he has now "flip-flopped" by voting against an aid package for the country that is being subjected to an unprovoked invasion by President Vladimir Putin."

As the Washington Post reported, last May Graham complained that President Joe Biden needed to "do more' for Ukraine. Jump forward to last week, Graham said on the Senate floor that he opposed a $60 billion Ukraine aid package, and added, "I talked to President Trump today and he’s dead set against this package."

According to MSNBC's Scarborough, Graham and Trump are siding with America's enemies.

"He's fully gone now," Scarborough told his panel. "I don't think even [Graham mentor] Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would ever, ever have imagined that Lindsey Graham would go from supporting Ukraine's fight against Vladimir Putin to following Donald Trump."

"There are people inside the Senate, Republicans inside the Senate, outraged at Lindsey's flip-flopping and the fact that he actually voted against [the package] and if Lindsey had voted with them, there would have been at least half of the Republicans or maybe a majority of the Republicans in the Senate voting for this Ukrainian aid package but he voted against it," he added.

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"Yeah, Senator Graham always, you know, fancied himself a defense hawk, right?" co-host Willie Geist stated. "He was the guy that was going to stand in the breach and help democracy survive and push Russia back. He talked like that until Donald Trump told him not to. It goes back to what we talk about all the time: is there anything these Republicans will not do for Donald Trump if he asks them, if he tells them?"

He added, "You can say no once in a while and maintain your relationship. You still get invited to Mar-a-Lago to play golf. You can still hang out in the cabanas and have fun down there. Maybe if he [Trump] gets re-elected, he'll put you in his cabinet, which I suspect Senator Graham is up to, or just being close to power is the goal. But, man, you have to stand for something."

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