Lindsey Graham Video Praising Joe Biden Resurfaces: 'As Good a Man as God Ever Created'

[highplainsdem]

Full Newsweek headline, which didn't qutie fit in the subject line:

Lindsey Graham Video Praising Joe Biden Resurfaces Amid Ukraine Corruption Probe: 'As Good a Man as God Ever Created'


https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-video-joe-biden-ukraine-corruption-impeachment-trump-1473468

A video of an emotional Senator Lindsey Graham speaking about his admiration for former Vice President Joe Biden has resurfaced on social media and is gaining attention after the South Carolina Republican kicked off a Ukraine-related probe into the 2020 Democratic candidate.

"If you can't admire Joe Biden as a person there's probably—you got a problem and you need to do some self-evaluation because what's not to like?" a choked-up Graham says during the video, filmed by HuffPo back in 2016 and now shared again on Twitter thousands of times.

Graham then talks about Biden's loss of his son, Beau Biden, to brain cancer. "I called him after Beau died and he basically said, well, Beau was my soul. We talked for a long time," Graham says.

"He came to my ceremony and said some of the most incredibly heartfelt things that anybody could ever say to me. And he's the nicest person I think I've ever met in politics. He is as good a man as God ever created.

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As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham on Thursday wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting documents related to Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and other Obama administration officials and the former Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko.

Today I began an investigation into the Bidens. Did the Biden's do anything wrong? NO. Am I doing this to make @realDonaldTrump look innocent? YES. WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!! IT WILL MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A MONSTER... pic.twitter.com/ZBEe80o4zZ
— Lindsey Graham's Conscience (@LGsConscience) November 22, 2019

Graham is pursuing the dubious allegation that while in office Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin to disrupt a corruption investigation into Burisma while his son was on the board.

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Link to that tweet, with the video, from the Twitter account Lindsey Graham's Conscience:

Link to tweet

I posted that tweet in General Discussion last night, since I'd already seen people posting there about Graham's opening this investigation.

Unfortunately, that thread was locked there, but not before it had several replies and 20 recs.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212717743

[Jarqui]

1. Unfortunately for Lindsey, there are probably other videos that haven't come out nt

[emmaverybo]

2. A graphic illustration of the old "with friends like that, you don't need enemies." Graham's soul is

severely compromised by kompromat or lust for power, perhaps both. He will go down in history as a traitor to friendship and to country. In that way, he will not be forgotten.

[dewsgirl]

3. It looks like someone was sitting on this, waiting for just

the perfect time to leak it.👏

[Mz Pip]

4. Poor Lindsay

Biden should use that in an ad.

[Cha]

7. Great idea!! omg!

[SWBTATTReg]

5. And I seem to recall that Biden extended his hand out to republicans, said that we need to...

work w/ them, etc., etc., etc. A lot of us on DU thought that this thinking was somewhat misplaced, a little naïve. I wonder now how he feels when LG turned on Biden like this?

[Hekate]

11. 1. I think Biden's very public disappointment & chastisement should pain what's left of Lindsey's...

...soul, and
2. For anyone who has not yet figured this out, Joe Biden is running a General Election campaign, and has been from Day One. He's the only one who is always and explicitly against Trump and Trumpism, and is appealing to not just a slice of Democrats, but to anyone out there who is sick of where Trump has led this country.

Joe Biden remains an optimist -- I sincerely doubt he is naive.

[SWBTATTReg]

13. A healthy optimism is a good thing, but also, a healthy skepticism. I know that Biden has been ...

around the block so to speak, and certainly can take care of himself, as he's proved many times. I still admire the one time he wiped up Paul Ryan in the one on one debate w/ him. Biden took control of the whole thing and ran with it, leaving Ryan seemingly gasping for air.

[highplainsdem]

6. George Takei: Where has that Lindsey gone?

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

8. Please watch Don Lemon interview Joe tonight

Link to tweet

[myohmy2]

9. if graham...

...likes Joe, then that makes me nervous...

...in today's political climate, that can worry me...

...maybe it goes back to my mother and childhood but it seemed I was always being judged by the friends I kept...

...I never cared much for lindsey...

[Hekate]

10. What, precisely, are you implying about Joe Biden's character? That Joe sold his soul to Satan?

That because Lindsey Graham turned into a spineless yet poisounous worm, that Joe is too?

Because, you know, Joe Biden's been out of the Senate for awhile, and ever since John McCain died Lindsey's been on a long downhill slide. While Joe Biden's reputation remains as good as it's ever been-- which is sterling.

Don't be too cute.

[myohmy2]

14. I'm...

...not implying anything and I'm not being cute...

...do you like lindsey?

...I don't...

[Gothmog]

12. Joe Biden: trump has something on Lindsey

Link to tweet