Where’s Lindsey? After G.O.P. outcry, Graham emerges as a Trump defender
WASHINGTON — Late last month, as damaging revelations about President Donald Trump began piling up in the impeachment inquiry, conservative commentators and activists, including one of the president’s sons, trained their anger on an unlikely target: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
“I think Lindsey Graham has heard the message,” said former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who appeared on “Fox & Friends” in the media blitz last month to call the senator to action. “Sen. Graham is taking a very measured approach, but he is right on the precipice of a lot of frustration that he doesn’t actually hold people accountable,” Chaffetz said. “He has the gavel, and he has the personality and the reason to bring these people in.”
The position constitutes a turnabout from just last month, when Graham persistently worked to distance himself from any talk of investigating the Bidens, to the annoyance of House Republicans who had been working to construct an impeachment counterattack, according to people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who has traveled and worked with Graham on the Judiciary Committee, has sharply criticized his decision to investigate the Bidens. That is not the Graham conservatives care to hear from these days. Many of them are openly pining for the kind of performance — red-faced, blustery and unapologetic — that he gave during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, when he declared the proceedings “the most unethical sham” he had ever seen in politics.
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