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Lindsey Graham and Trump Are Feuding Again.

Oh, the drama continues.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readFeb 5, 2022
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Ah, Lindsey Graham.

Where to begin? The South Carolina Senator has certainly garnered a lot of attention throughout the Trump era, and that’s exactly how he wanted it of course. Aside from perhaps Ted Cruz — who literally found himself phone-banking for the former President even after Trump called his wife ugly and implied his father could be the zodiac killer — there are few have been quite as shameless, craven, and frankly pathetic in their bows to Donald Trump than Lindsey Graham. After all, who can forget when Trump literally doxxed the Senator, only to have Graham groveling at his feet shortly afterwards and taking pride in being in the center of his orbit.

Well, in a surprising turn of events that I’m sure no one could have predicted, Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham are feuding again.

Chase Laudenslager with WSAV writes:

“…Hundreds of people have been arrested in connection to the Capitol Riot on charges ranging from trespassing to assaulting law enforcement to sedition. Typically deferential to the former president, Graham broke ranks when he refused to support remarks Trump made at a Texas rally indicating those people were justified.

“If I run and I win, we will treat those people from January…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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