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MSNBC Host Suggests Lindsey Graham Is Being Blackmailed By Trump

While the media often (and often correctly) criticizes President Donald Trump for attacking critics personally or making claims without sufficient support, there seems less scrutiny when he or his allies is the target of such attacks. The recent attacks on Sen. Lindsey Graham after MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle suggested on national television that his support for Trump is due to being blackmailed with “something pretty extreme.” Various Republicans denounced the allegation (which was picked up by a Democratic member) as a clear reference to long-standing rumors that Graham is gay (which Graham as denied). They have described the statements are inherently homophobic. The reprehensible statement was soon echoed by others — not only implying that President Trump engages in blackmail but that Graham has sold out to conceal some “extreme” conduct.

Ruhle and former Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., were discussing Graham’s support for Trump and Jolly observed

“Before Don got elected, Lindsey Graham called Donald Trump a racist, xenophobic bigot. Those are Lindsey Graham’s words,. I doubt Lindsey Graham could tell you Donald Trump has had a change of heart in the last 24 months, I bet the change of heart has been with Lindsey Graham, not the president.”

Ruhle responded, “Or it could be that Donald Trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about Lindsey Graham.”

That suggestion was then picked up by freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota who declared Graham “compromised.” She reiterated her claim when challenged later and insisted “He is somehow compromised to no longer stand up for the truth and is fighting to protect the oath that he took in serving the American people.”

There was no outrage from the House Democratic leadership to a member making such a claim about a Senate member based only on her assumption that Graham supporting Trump could not be based on blackmail. Indeed, she was elevated as a freshman to the Foreign Relations Committee.

News outlets like CNN reported the story without any discussion of the irresponsible and salacious allegation. There was also no discussion of the fact that Graham routinely criticizes Trump, including this week over his withdrawal of troops from war zones. There was also no discussion of the fact that Graham said after the election that, while he was a strong critic of Trump, he would seek to get along with him and push their shared agenda.

Omar later seemed to move away from the blackmail allegation and said that “I am pretty sure that there is something happening with him, whether it is, you know, something that has to do with his funding when it comes to running for office, whether it has something to do with the polling that they might have in his district [sic], or whether it has to do with some sort of leadership within the Senate.”

Again, there was no serious scrutiny of the belated change in Omar’s allegation from being blackmailed back Trump to feeling pressure from constituents. Of course, if polling and federal funding constitute being “compromised” virtually all of Omar’s colleagues are compromised. The same polling pressures make it impossible for any Democrats to support Trump. Does that mean that they are also compromised by something “extreme”? Alternatively, is the same polling the reason why Democrats are silent in defending Graham from a scurrilous allegation made without any evidence?

83 thoughts on “MSNBC Host Suggests Lindsey Graham Is Being Blackmailed By Trump”

  1. I think that JT is a good sport for throwing a bone with this headline to the usual suspects on this site. So look snowflakes, the truth of the matter is that Graham is most likely protecting his investment he has with Trump and The Trump Towers Moscow breaking ground after Nov, 2020. But by then, even Putin will have no use for Trump.

  3. CNN is on all the screens at airports, is MSNBC on all the screens at mental institutions?

  5. This is not the first time that innuendo about Graham’s private life has been used by the left. It is edifying that the group that claims to be so pro LGBTQ and whatever else, is quick to use homophobic slurs and suggestion to discredit their opposition.
    C***holster
    B***boy
    Come immediately to mind.

    1. they use gays for their own personal talking points and rise to power, just they use blacks, latinos, disabled, etc. The Left are an insidious group but alas they are desperate these days because finally a Republican like Trump is using their savage tactics and educating Americans of their true stripes: vile animals just like Hillary, Pelosi, Harry Reid, etc

      Its about time

      Graham will be fine. So he might be a homo like us. Who cares

  6. Former Rep. David Jolly is just has-been with an ax to grind on MSNBC. He has somehow managed to blame Trump for losing his bid to get re-elected in 2016. Imagine the repercussions if a Fox commentator speculated on-air in a similar manner about bachelorette AOC.

  7. So Lindsey Graham gets a backbone during the Kavanaugh conformation. Now he is a prime target of he left. Can’t wait till Trump replaces RBG.

    1. Set aside the supposed reason for the blackmail. It could be anything. Set aside the supposed identity of the blackmailer. It could be almost anyone. Focus on the possibility for the blackmail based on the hack of Senator Graham’s emails.

      https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/14/politics/lindsey-graham-hacking-russia-donald-trump/index.html

      Dec 14, 2016 … Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday his campaign email account was hacked by Russians — adding that the US needs to work …

      1. Set aside the supposed reason for the blackmail. It could be anything. Set aside the supposed identity of the blackmailer. It could be almost anyone.
        Focus only on the shiny pocket watch swinging back and forth, back and forth, and the possibility that the blackmail is based on something lurking in Graham’s High School yearbook.
        Focus on the possibility that Sen. Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee has that damning yearbook information, and will spring it on Graham, the Committee Chairman, at an opportune moment.

    2. Now he is a prime target of he left.

      He and every Republican member of the Judiciary committee.

      Muckraking works. Progressives know this all too well. The difference between its use now and its use in the early 1900’s is now the muck doesn’t exist anywhere but in the minds of the rakers, and it’s gobbled up the ignorati of this country.

      1. SPLC one of the worst muckrakers of our day, who use their lies to gin up donations, all the while masquerading as a public interest law firm, with a 350 million dollar endowment (Southern Poverty Law center? wow how about opening a soup kitchen) …… anyhow the SPLC just suffered a multimillion dollar judgment for defamation, and two new ones have recently been filed against it. stay tuned!

    1. ?

      Thespian used to mean a person from Thebes, a long time ago.

      Then it meant an actor. I thought it still did or does?

        1. What does Claude Pepper have to do with Thespians? Too obscure for me…

  9. Watching birds land is edifying. Fortunately most are light weight and well protected by feathers.

      1. Well, it is easy for me to ignore her but I suppose that makes little difference…

        1. It is statements like these by m es p o at 6:33 that show something terrible has happened to him or he is an imposter.

      2. Did not take you for a self-loathed though I understand why. “Hate whitey” movement, you are priceless.

    1. Might as well take the opportunity to limake something of nothing. About Pelosi’s cancelled trip at public expense.

      Why was she going to an international economic conference to begin with? The Senators from the appropriate committee I can see since only the Senate deals with treaties. The famous something Obama ignored when he failed to send proposed treaties to them for the required ‘advice and consent.’ The most infamous being Iran and Kyoto his ‘personal but not official ‘deals.’

      But Representatives? To what purpose? On what excuse? First refuses to deal with business that is her business then goes on ‘jaunts’ to Hawaii etc.? What a shameful ‘thing’ it is to be a Pelosi.

      And now EBC in this group ‘sneaks in’ an unsupported suggestion with no known nor supported foundation nor facts. What a shameful thing it is to be a ‘shill,’ To no purpose. Ad Machina.

      1. Nancy Pelosi is guilty of not knowing when to walk away – she is intoxicated with power and self-importance and started to embark on that trip totally tone-deaf with a weak staff lacking balls to confront her on her judgements (trip and SOTU threat for example). Trump did her a favor by pulling military aircraft out from under her and at same time sent the right message to the American public.

  12. The only suggestion I’ve seen that Graham is gay came from Turley. If someone could point out another instance I’d appreciate it. Then Turley goes on to call the remarks “homophobic.” Turley’s defense of Trump has gone well past truthfulness.

    1. Enigma:
      You’re not to be faulted. You only read the corporate propaganda bureau releases that by a recent study found is 90% anti-Trump. Try some alt media.

      1. I only read Turley’s piece. There was no quote with the suggestion Graham is gay. If Turley is going to claim a “homophobic statement” was made. He should have provided it.

        1. The real Mespo does not rely on alt right media something is wrong with this fake Mespo.

    2. The only suggestion I’ve seen that Graham is gay came from Turley.

      You need to get out more. Graham puts up with these insults as a matter of course.

    3. Enigma Man please do not insult our intelligence. If you watch the clip it is obvious what MSNBC commentators are hinting at. In the immortal words of Steve Marriucci: “Believe what you see”.

      1. I can’t tell if enigma is deliberately insulting our intelligence by acting so coy and uninformed, or if he is actually revealing his own lack of intelligence.
        Not that it matters, really. Who cares?

  13. Didn’t Omar run some sham marriage scam involving her brother? Or am I confusing her with some other avatar of chain migration in Minneapolis?

  14. So what is it? Buzzfeed concocted something out of whole cloth or Mueller’s minions are leaking like a sieve?

    1. Buzzfeed? Concoct a story? Perish the thought. They brought us the Steele dossier as a Pentagin Papers-like scoop. Crying “Wolf” for them is daily business.

      1. Buzzfeed video seems to only feature men severely lacking in testosterone, who oddly Gillette seems to believe presently is their target market.

  15. Graham gets schlonged in this insulting way because he’s a bachelor who doesn’t engage in displays a la Joe Namath ca. 1969. Its just another indication of how vulgar and discourteous is the contemporary culture, and the ‘dissident right’ types in re Graham are worse offenders than the Democrats. (Graham spent a dozen years in the military, spent all of his first 40 years living in South Carolina or living on military bases, has as his home residence a house in a small town in upstate South Carolina within commuting distance of his sister, and has as his one known avocation golf. If he’s a homosexual, he’s certainly playing against type).

    1. And I suppose you thought Liberace was straight as an arrow too….

      hahahahahahaha!

      1. Turley attracts and retains a great many stupid juveniles on his comment boards.

        Graham isn’t performing in sequins and he hasn’t been slapped with a palimony suit.

    2. interesting that Dems are all pro gay but they use this innuendo to try and embarrass someone? they have no scruples and not even good taste

      in other gay news it turns out Tulsi Gabbarb’s pops was some kind of antigay publisher or something, and she’s apologized for it.

      the poor gays. they always get screwed, somehow. lol

  17. MSM: Trump is under the control of Putin
    MSNBC, Chris Mathews, Trump takes his marching orders from Rush Limbaugh
    CNN, Trump takes his marching orders from Ann Coulter

    and thousands of other ridiculous claims.

    They just can’t make up their mind who to blame, but you can bet, they will ALWAYS blame someone else, the Left never does anything wrong.

    It must be nice to be an omnipotent leftist.

  18. If I didn’t know that Barbara Cartland is long-deceased, I would swear she is writing news copy for MSNBC.

  19. Representative Omar has just left the door wide open to speculation that her allegations about Sen. Graham and everything else she says is Taqqiyah – lies told to further the agenda of the extremists in Islam, such as the Council for American-Islam Relations.

    Of course, it’s a sad commentary on the chiliasts of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic caucuses in both houses that no one rose to condemn Omar’s remarks.

    Somehow, the term “scumbags” doesn’t seem vivid enough.

  20. Interesting Buzzfeed story tonight. Here’s the key paragraph.

    The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.

    2. If substantiated with credible and unimpeachable evidence, turn out the lights, the Trump presidency is over…

              1. My God you’re stupid! Here, I’ll spell it out for you:
                You’re conflating two expressions – “if frogs had wings they wouldn’t bump their butt everytime they jump” vs. “yeah, right, that’ll happen when pigs fly”.

                You’re welcome.

            2. Rep. Omar seemed to be building on the innuendo of the MSNBC talking heads, and seemed to be careful about being specific.
              That way, she could imply something, but at the same time deny that she was “really saying” this or that specific comment about Graham.
              Mespo’s comment reminded me that she has yet to call for Sen. Graham to be thrown off the top of a building….that might be viewed as being over the top, even by her own constituents…so we’ll see how far she’s prepared to go in attacking Graham, or if she just sticks more with the innuendo.

      2. Just keep digging through the manure. Maybe you’ll find a pony in there.

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