{"id":56351,"date":"2023-12-20T18:32:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56351"},"modified":"2023-12-20T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:32:17","slug":"graham-mounts-pitiful-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56351","title":{"rendered":"Graham mounts pitiful defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lindsey Graham has mounted what only can be called a pitiful defense of the guy he once determined was unfit for public office.<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina Republican U.S. senator has become a first-degree, top-tier suck-up to Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump over the weekend used Hitleresque language to describe immigrants, saying they are &#8220;poisoning&#8221; out nation&#8217;s blood. &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host Kristen Welker pressed Graham on what Trump said, asking him if the ex-POTUS&#8217;s rhetoric caused him concern.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no. Graham said we should watch his actions, that it doesn&#8217;t matter what Trump says. What a line of BS.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s actions, I need to remind the senator, mirror quite nicely what he has said about many individuals. So, when he says people &#8220;poison&#8221; our blood, or calls his critics &#8220;vermin,&#8221; he is charting a path straight down the steps of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Putin and other despots he reportedly admires.<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Graham has mounted what only can be called a pitiful defense of the guy he once determined was unfit for public office. The South Carolina Republican U.S. senator has become a first-degree, top-tier suck-up to Donald J. Trump. Trump over the weekend used Hitleresque language to describe immigrants, saying they are &#8220;poisoning&#8221; out nation&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graham mounts pitiful defense<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[10303,10304,2798,7419,9523],"class_list":["post-56351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-despots","tag-dictators","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-maga","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56352,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56351\/revisions\/56352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}