From Race-Baiting Bigot To Greatest Senator Ive Known — The Graham-Trump Story Chris Boswell [PVyh88EhEsU]

In 2015 Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot, a kook, and unfit for office. Trump called Graham idiotic, a lightweight, a disgrace, a nut job, and one of the dumbest human beings he had ever met. Trump then published Graham's personal cell phone number on live television.

Yesterday Trump called him one of the greatest people and senators he had ever known. A member of the family.

Alex Marlow reflects on what made this friendship work Trump's quote that Graham was always working and what that says about what Trump actually fantasy television values in people. Not agreement. Action. Graham was always trying to build something move something get something done. And he was hbo at Mar-a-Lago basically every time Alex was there.

Then the Senate situation. Mitch McConnell finally released a statement and a hospital photo jeans in the hospital, a Sunday sports page positioned carefully so the internet could verify it was current day. Alex calls it a hostage video. McConnell had a fall, was briefly unconscious, doctors ruled out serious conditions, mild pneumonia, polio-related mobility challenges from childhood, plans to new deal retire in January.

Trump recommending Graham's sister Darlene as interim replacement. Who runs for the permanent seat Joe Wilson, Nikki Haley, Nancy Mace, Alan Wilson. The Republican Senate majority is already narrow. It just got narrower.