Lindsey Graham seems to think that he is maintaining some shred of credibility by saying this, but of course he isn’t:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday night urged President Donald Trump’s legal team to actually provide evidence in their court fights backing up their baseless accusations that the election, which was won decisively by President-elect Joe Biden, had been tainted by fraud.
“To the Trump legal team: You’re making all these claims…you gotta prove it,” the senator said during an interview on Fox News. “Doing a video is not proof. You need to take these claims into a court of law and get relief.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump posted a 46-minute video on Facebook of him spewing a rant teemed with his usual lies about mass voter fraud and the election being “rigged” in what he claimed “may be the most important speech I’ve ever made.”
The President demanded that somebody, be it the media or judges, validate his false claims that the race had been “stolen” from him and that he was the true victor.
“They know who won the election, but they refuse to say you’re right. Our country needs somebody to say ‘You’re right,’” Trump said.
He knows there is no proof, of course. After all, he was calling around trying to get various officials to throw out legal votes. Obviously, he knew that they didn’t have a leg to stand on.
I keep wondering if these people will be able to erase all this within a few months as everyone moves on. The desire to put this horror show behind us is palpable and I feel it too, particularly as we are still in the midst of this horrific crisis and it won’t be completely over for quite some time.
But the internet is forever and some of us are not going to let this go. I won’t be focusing on Donald Trump except to the extent he may be held accountable for what he’s done. But these people, the Republican accomplices and the people who vote for them, have so much power that we can’t afford to look away even if we want to.
These people blow up the country and then leave the carnage behind for the Democrats to deal with. This pattern is becoming much more dangerous as they are upping the ante every time. Following their dubious “victory” in 2000, they used 9/11 as an excuse to start a war and the financial system collapsed, making Obama’s first term a nightmare. And because the problems were so overwhelming, Obama and the rest of the Democrats decided they couldn’t afford to continue the partisan fighting and they agreed not to “look in the rearview mirror.”
I think that was a mistake. It led to more and more radical nihilism on the part of the Republicans, to the point where they have weaponized obstructionism as a weapon of mass destruction that permeates every corner of government. Let’s just say that this isn’t going to be any better under Joe Biden.