Graham Ambitiously Advises Trump To ‘Keep A Low Profile’ Amid Impeachment

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on December 20, 2018. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Keep dreaming, senator.

Entangled in an impeachment process that will forever stain his legacy, President Donald Trump has been sending unhinged six-page screeds, firing off equally unhinged tweets in all-caps with multiple exclamation points, mocking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) teeth and attacking people’s deceased spouses.

Trump loyalist Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who’s faithfully pledged to do everything he can to kill impeachment in the Senate, said the President should do, well, none of those things.

“He needs to be respectful of the process,” Graham told Politico on Thursday. “He can defend himself, he has a right to express his grievances but if I were him I would…keep a low profile.”

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  1. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    I think you’d have better luck asking a dog to stay while holding a juicy steak inches away.

  2. Trump doesn’t believe in the Constitution, as it limits his powers as president and he wants absolute power to do anything he wants at any time. So it’s no surprise he’s not respecting the process, or laying low…he’s going to yell and scream like a five year old whose parents wouldn’t give him candy. And, he’s going to insult everyone against him, and continue to lie and cheat in the 2020 election.

    The worst part of all is that Republicans will just let him get away with it…none of this is surprising from Trump, but it’s a real indictment of the patriotism of the Republican party, which has so easily switched to pursuing absolute power in the past couple decades (and especially after Obama was elected). Trump will get off, no matter what Moscow Mitch has to do to make it happen…after that, it’s up to the voters to keep the Republic, because the Republicans have surely shown they have no interest in it anymore.

  3. Dear Senator, you know, I am thinking
    That instructing this Violet So Shrinking
    Is a waste of your time.
    He’s Modest! Sublime!
    Though his name with impeachment we’re linking.

  4. Oh this is hilarious. Lindz sounds worried that Trump maybe making an impeachment trial difficult for Republicans. Trump hold back, keep a low profile ? When pigs fly.

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