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Raymond J. de Souza: Lindsey Graham fought for Ukraine to his dying breath

The late senator was criticized for his cozy relationship with Trump, but this was the price he paid to sway the administration on Ukraine

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Regarding the late U.S. senator Lindsey Graham, President Donald Trump had lavish praise, the kind he customarily reserves for tyrants. That’s a heavy burden for any man to carry to his grave, though Graham earned it. Such was the posterior osculation he offered the president after formerly castigating him as a reckless, bigoted nutjob.

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About Trump, Graham blew cold then hot, then cold and then as hot as can be. He ran against him for president in 2015 — the “nutjob” assessment — and then converted after Trump won the presidency. At the end of Trump’s first term, after the siege at the Capitol seeking to prevent the count of electoral college votes — with threats of violence against then-vice-president Mike Pence — Graham declared: “Count me out. Enough is enough.”

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He quickly recounted, calculating that while Trump had lost the 2020 election — a courageous position to hold in Trumpworld — he had not lost the Republican........

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