Republican North Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham continued his unquestioning loyalty to President Donald Trump by defending the President for urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate 2020 Presidential candidate, Vice President Joe Biden.
"I don't mind the President bringing up that 'Maybe the [Ukrainian prosecutor] was fired because of a conflict of interest,'" Graham said to reporters.
One reporter asked, "How is it not inappropriate that the President asked the President of another country to look into a political rival who's running for an election, possibly against him if he wins the primary next year?"
Graham responded:
"I don't know what you looked at. I think it's very appropriate for the President of the United States to suggest that you've got a corruption problem and this prosecutor that was fired, maybe it was because he was corrupt. Or maybe it was because he was looking into something close to America here."
Watch below:
Yesterday’s Republican Talking Points: Trump never pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. Today’s Republican… https://t.co/2PKkQkhMh5— Keith Boykin (@Keith Boykin) 1569423435.0
Graham is repeating a baseless claim that, as Vice President, Joe Biden facilitated the removal of Ukraine's top prosecutor because he was investigating Burisma Holdings, an energy company for which Biden's son Hunter served as a board member.
Numerous fact checkers have called out the baselessness of the allegation against Biden, from CNN fact checker Daniel Dale to Fox News host Shepard Smith.
No evidence Biden’s son was under investigation. No evidence Biden mentioned the investigation. No hard proof the i… https://t.co/MEWaTN8i8v— Daniel Dale (@Daniel Dale) 1569289980.0
Fact check: The Ukrainian investigator was NOT investigating Biden, his son, or the Ukrainian company he was involv… https://t.co/NziC0i2eC6— ian bremmer (@ian bremmer) 1569207046.0
Sadly, Graham's spinelessness surprised no one.
@keithboykin The cockroaches are scrambling for the right words to hide trump's crimes under.— cecekat6517 (@cecekat6517) 1569423959.0
@keithboykin @willwilkinson My question for Lindsey Graham: would it have been appropriate then for President Obama… https://t.co/tRHEPcxcBc— Great Boo's Up (@Great Boo's Up) 1569432080.0
@LindseyGrahamSC @realDonaldTrump You impeached over dishonesty about a sexual affair. Spare us— John Legend (@John Legend) 1569436056.0
Don’t you just kind of feel like we’re nearing the point where Lindsey Graham abruptly shape-shifts into the form o… https://t.co/K9yFMMlj7N— The Hoarse Whisperer (@The Hoarse Whisperer) 1569441000.0
@LindseyGrahamSC Garbage. Still shilling for the most corrupt man in the WH. Big surprise https://t.co/wcaucr48zr— Lisa❤Jypsey❤🇨🇦🇨🇦 (@Lisa❤Jypsey❤🇨🇦🇨🇦) 1569432996.0
Yikes.
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