Back when Bill Clinton was facing impeachment in the Senate, the guy in charge of making

the case against him was a relatively green congressman from South Carolina named Lindsey Graham.

You can still look up Graham's closing arguments against Clinton on C-SPAN, along with a lot of other videotape

that hasn't aged particularly well, especially now that Graham's moved up to the Senate.

Twenty years ago, he was urging his colleagues to remain impartial when it came to impeachment.

Members of the Senate have said, I understand everything there is about this case, and I won't vote to impeach the president.

Please allow the facts to do the talking. Don't decide the case before the case is in.

Now, as Graham gets ready to sit in judgment against President Trump, he sounds pretty different.

I am clearly made up my mind. I'm not trying to hide the fact that I have disdain for the accusations in the process.

I am ready to vote on the underlying articles.

I don't really need to hear a lot of witnesses.

This discrepancy would be almost funny if it didn't make your head spin.

Yeah, I mean, he's found himself at the center of everything for a number of reasons.

But, I mean, we all know that he'll act as a sort of de facto defense attorney for Trump.

Mark Benelli reports for Rolling Stone. and he found himself wondering about Senator Graham

because there have just been so many different versions of him.

Even in the last few weeks, this impeachment inquiry has forced Lindsey Graham into a very

public argument with himself, like when he announced he was launching an investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

He announced a separate investigation into your friend Joe Biden.

And this was after a month or two of him saying he absolutely wouldn't be doing that, that he didn't see any reason to do that.

Joe Biden is a friend. He's one of the most decent people I've ever met in my life.

But here's the deal.

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