He just wants to be a real boy
The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey has read the new Martin and Burns book about Trump’s final days and after and he relates a number of entertaining anecdotes contained within it. I especially enjoyed this one:
The authors use [Lindsey] Graham as a central character in the book. After the election, “Graham was urging his Republican colleagues to give the president space to come to terms with the election results. Trump would have a few weeks to rage and rail, but the votes would all be counted soon enough and the outcome would be incontestable,” the authors write.
Graham describes talking to Trump on the day the election was called — and finding the former president more interested in an upcoming round with a professional golfer.Advertisement
The book places Graham in Senate lunches, urging other Republicans to be cooperative with Trump and even briefing them on his preferred nicknames for them.
It also describes Graham hiding in the Capitol as the rioters descend, calling the White House counsel to threaten Trump’s removal from office. And it shows Graham back at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club golfing with him again.
While interviewing the former president, Martin and Burns write that Graham called him twice — and that Trump answered the second time and put him on speakerphone.
“Tell them about the Trump endorsements,” he instructed the senator, according to the book.
“Graham, scarcely three months after renouncing his allegiance to Trump on the Senate floor, hopped to it. ‘I’ve never seen it quite like this,’ Graham said, elaborating: ‘President Trump’s endorsement is the most consequential endorsement of any politician I’ve seen in my 20-something years.’”Advertisement
“’Most importantly, would you tell them one thing,’ he nudged Graham. ‘Can Trump play golf?’” the authors write.
“If you don’t believe it, go play with him,” the book quotes Graham as responding.
He just pulls his string and he talks!
Graham always says that he wants to be relevant. I don’t think it’s working.