Now that the Senate cover-up is firmly in place, top Trump bootlicker Sen. Lindsey Graham has some thoughts on what the Senate should do next. After successfully blocking any and all direct administration witnesses to Donald Trump illegally blocking U.S. military aid to Ukraine in an effort to extort that at-war nation into assisting him with "dirt" for his re-election campaign, Leningrad Lindsey says the Senate's next step should be to call Obama administration witnesses in a new investigation of ... Hunter Biden.
In a Fox News interview with an angry banana, Graham called on Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Jim Risch to compel testimony from a list of Obama-era administration officials who he says had thoughts about the "conflict of interest" present in Vice President Joe Biden's failson Hunter Biden's appointment to the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. That's right: If Lindsey Graham gets his way, the Republican Senate will now launch with both feet into the exact campaign smear Rudy Giuliani has been peddling on behalf of corrupt Ukrainian and pro-Russia figures. All to help Trump.
Lindsey Graham is, at this point, a genuine fascist. Graham has spent the last month insisting, very loudly and with as much faux-anger as his limited skills can muster, that members of a presidential administration can absolutely never be compelled to testify to Congress because of newly discovered magical executive powers. Demanding such testimony is an outrage, says the nation's top presidential emotional support dog.
The pirouette to demanding Obama administration officials each be hauled into the Senate to answer for bug-eyed conspiracies promoted by Rudy Giuliani and an ex-Ukrainian official known worldwide for his corruption, on the other hand, was effortless. It has been effortless throughout, because Graham has only one core principle: maintain Republican power at all, and he does mean all, costs. It does not matter that Giuliani's newest ally (client?) was removed for blocking legitimate inquiries into Burisma corruption; according to Republicans, it was the now-overthrown pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarchy that was the non-corrupt ones, and the current Ukrainian government, along with a U.S. Ambassador and the rest of America's own State Department apparatus, who are our true enemies.
Graham and other senators will absolutely promote this and other conspiracy theories, including the incredibly stupid, stupid-even-for-Lindsey-Graham theory pushed by the Putin government that there is a secret computer somewhere in Ukraine which proves Democrats "hacked" their own server and framed Russia for it because they are just that mean. This is, in part, what fascism is. It insists on reinventing history for the needs of Dear Leader and his party. It insists that everything you know is a lie, and the lies of Dear Leader are the truth.
We will see how far Lindsey gets, in his pro-Russia, pro-corruption, pro-Trump, anti-American conspiracy peddling. It may work, it may not. If it does not work, Graham is still a contemptible and grotesque stain on our nation for attempting it.
Up is down -- Lindsey Graham says he intends to compel former Obama administration officials and Hunter Biden to testify before the Senate as part of an investigation into purported Obama administration misconduct in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/x45QCNgm9e— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 2, 2020
Up is down -- Lindsey Graham says he intends to compel former Obama administration officials and Hunter Biden to testify before the Senate as part of an investigation into purported Obama administration misconduct in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/x45QCNgm9e