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'What is he doing?': Morning Joe rips Lindsey Graham for latest Trump-pleasing showboating
May 9, 2024 7:10AM ET
Lindsey Graham (Photo by Chip Somodevilla for AFP)
On Thursday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough pounced on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) after the GOP senator went on a tirade aimed at President Joe Biden for giving notice to Israel that he would withhold offensive weaponry if a planned assault on Rafah in the Gaza strip goes forward.
That led Graham, who raged in a hearing before Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, to complain bitterly and invoke the usage of atomic weaponry on Japanese cities at the end of World War II.
After showing clips of the South Carolina Republican flipping out, the "Morning Joe" host accused Graham of putting on a performance for Donald Trump while calling Graham a "hypocrite."
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"Oh, my god, what a hypocrite," the MSNBC host exclaimed. "What a hypocrite! Republicans sat on their hands for months refusing to give Israel aid! Republicans sat on their hands for months refusing to give Ukraine aid. Republicans sat on their hands for months refusing to give Taiwan the aid it needed to push back the Communist Chinese from invading their island. for months!"
"Stop lying! Stop lying. I know it's hard because Donald Trump wants you to say things like that," he later added, before mocking Graham's southern accent and saying, "'I support Ukraine. I support Ukraine.' Then Donald Trump says, 'Don't support Ukraine,' and his hound dog barks, 'Don't support Ukraine,' he goes 'I don't support Ukraine no more, we're going to lease them weapons' — what?"
"A country is dying because of Russian invaders and Vladimir Putin says he has his eyes set on Poland and the Baltic states, and Donald tells you, Lindsey, not to support Ukraine and to hold up funding for Israel and to hold up funding for Taiwan, and you're providing lectures to the secretary of defense? What a joke," he added.
"What is he doing?" Scarborough later asked co-host Willie Geist. "Does he really think we're that stupid? They were the ones holding up support for Israel for months, and, now, he's doing the Jimmy Swaggart routine, crying and being self-righteous? We know what happened! Come on, Lindsey! We may have been born at night, Lindsey, but we weren't born last night."
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