Sen. Lindsey Graham's decision to join Donald Trump in bashing Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky after a stunning display of arrogance by Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance got a thorough beat-down on MSNBC on Sunday morning.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," conservative commentator Charlie Sykes called out the South Carolina Republican who is now bashing Zelensky after previously comparing him to Winston Churchill.
In a recent interview, Graham said of the Oval Office meeting, "When a European leader speaks, no bad guy listens. When Trump speaks, everybody is on edge. I was never more proud of President Trump than I was yesterday."
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Asked to respond, Sykes told the hosts, "You know, I've given a lot of thought over the years to people like Lindsey Graham and, by the way, John McCain must be so horrified. to see what his friend is doing right now from wherever he is watching this."
"But, you know, you think about people like Lindsey Graham, who I'm sure have been telling themselves over the years that, you know 'I need to suck up to Donald Trump because I need to be in the room. I need to be the adult that stops bad things from happening.' And yet over the last week, what has happened? We have abandoned our allies, we voted with Russia in the United Nations. We humiliated, not just simply berated President Zelensky, but humiliated him in a way that world leaders do not do."
"What happened in the Oval Office has never happened in American history," he added. "No American president has behaved that way in public. Lindsey Graham knows this and yet has decided that he's going to continue his sycophancy."
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