After Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) forcefully came out against Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential nominee Friday, the billionaire said in an insult-riddled statement that he understands why Graham is still sore over the 2016 race.
“If I got beaten as badly as I beat him, and all the other candidates he endorsed, I would not be able to give my support either,” he said in the statement.
Trump went on the call Graham a “poor representative” and “embarrassment” to the people of South Carolina.
Graham said Friday he could not “in good conscience support Donald Trump because I do not believe he is a reliable Republican conservative nor has he displayed the judgment and temperament to serve as Commander in Chief.”
Read the full statement, provided to TPM:
I fully understand why Lindsey Graham cannot support me. If I got beaten as badly as I beat him, and all the other candidates he endorsed, I would not be able to give my support either. Every time I see Lindsey Graham spew hate during interviews I ask why the media never questions how I single handily destroyed his hapless run for President. As a candidate who did not receive 1% in his own state – compared to my victory at nearly 40% with many others in the race – he has zero credibility. He was a poor representative and an embarrassment to the great people of South Carolina. Judging by the incompetent way he ran his campaign, it is easy to see why his military strategies have failed so badly — we can’t even beat ISIS!
While I will unify the party, Lindsey Graham has shown himself to be beyond rehabilitation. And like the voters who rejected him, so will I!
