Ep. 1: The Corruption of Lindsey Graham

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Lindsey Graham was once one of Donald Trump's fiercest critics—before becoming one of his most important collaborators. His eventual capitulation is really a story about what happened to the whole Republican Party. The Bulwark Podcast presents The Corruption of Lindsey Graham, with Will Saletan. Read the whole thing at https://thebulwark.com/lindseygraham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's a scene from long ago.
0:07.8	Back when America felt like a pretty safe democracy.
0:11.6	Before it fell into the hands of Donald Trump.
0:14.8	It seems like ages ago now, but it was really just seven years.
0:19.4	It was January 21, 2016.
0:22.9	The scene was a press conference at the United States Capitol.
0:26.9	Okay. That's all right.
0:29.4	All right.
0:30.0	The man at the microphone was Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
0:35.1	Graham had been running for president until just a few weeks before this press conference.
0:40.2	He had dropped out because he couldn't catch up with the front runners.
0:43.9	Trump and Senator Ted Cruz.
0:47.0	Graham couldn't believe that one of these guys was likely to be the Republican nominee for president.
0:53.6	He thought both of them were terrible.
0:55.6	He figured that either of them, if they were nominated, would lose the general election.
1:00.0	And he drew an interesting analogy.
1:02.7	If you now make Trump and Cruz, I think you get the same outcome.
1:07.1	You know, would this death by being shot or poisoning does it really matter?
1:11.6	This wasn't the only time Graham used that analogy.
1:15.0	It came up again two months later when he was talking to Trevor Noah,
1:18.8	the late-night talk show host.
1:20.8	Okay. First of all, who is shooting and who's poisoning between Trump and Cruz?
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