Ep. 2 The Corruption of Lindsey Graham

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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While Lindsey Graham spent most of the 2016 campaign excoriating Trump as a toxic demagogue, he began transforming into his chief apologist after the election—in an effort to influence Trump on national security and foreign policy. But to get Trump to stand up to tyrants overseas, the senator soon found himself willing to compromise on rule of law at home. The Bulwark Podcast presents The Corruption of Lindsey Graham, with Will Saletan. Read The Corruption of Lindsey Graham in PDF or Kindle formats at thebulwark.com/lindseygraham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On November 17th, 2016, a week after Donald Trump was elected president, Senator Lindsey
0:14.4	Graham went on TV to start sucking up.
0:18.6	For most of the 2016 presidential campaign, Graham had excoriated Trump as a toxic demagogue.
0:26.0	But now Graham was changing his tune.
0:29.0	He wanted to build a relationship with the president to elect.
0:32.6	I'm in the book.
0:34.1	Call me if you need me.
0:35.1	Graham told Trump through the CNN camera.
0:37.9	Nope.
0:38.9	Nope.
0:39.9	I'm sure he's very busy trying to put together his team and I'm in the book.
0:43.3	Call me if you need me, but don't worry about Lindsey.
0:45.3	I'll be here helping where I can and if I can't help him.
0:48.4	Sucking up to a new president was normal.
0:50.9	But sucking up to this president would be very different.
0:55.1	He Trump had indicated that he would make his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a power broker
0:59.8	in the new government.
1:01.9	That was the kind of thing King's and dictators did.
1:05.2	But Graham, when he was asked about it, chose not to quit.
1:08.7	I know people are concerned about the business dealings of the Trump family and higher
1:12.0	relations with the presidency.
1:14.3	That's all fair game, but when it comes to Mr. Kushner, I'm all for him being able to
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