Is Lindsey Graham supporting Trump because the Russians hacked his emails and now Putin & Trump are blackmailing him into this support? MSNBC's #Resistance stars ponder the questionhttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/authoritarianism-expert-russia-hacked-lindsey-grahams-personal-emails-so-trump-may-be-blackmailing-him/ …
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Replying to @ggreenwald
Yeah couldn’t be Trumps lockstep support for Israel and escalation with Iran—Graham’s only two reasons for living that did it. Must be KOMPROMAT
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC @ggreenwald
Smelodies Retweeted emptywheel
@emptywheel raised the same questions about Dershowitz. Did you guys mock her too?https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/927002145299337216 …Smelodies added,
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Well with Dersh I think Epstein more likely. But I also don't rule out threats to out Lindsey as one means of keeping him in line. The closet still is very very powerful especially for older people.
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It’s a shame, because to my mind Lindsey WAS the strongest protector of the Mueller investigation among elected republicans. Albeit shitty on just about everything else.
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Replying to @SmelOdiesOG @emptywheel and
I still think it’s quite possible that Graham recognizes that Trump is uniquely susceptible to flattering and is doing so to gain access/influence.
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Replying to @EricColumbus @SmelOdiesOG and
Trump has also been doing things that Graham has long favored: hostility toward Tehran, serving Israel, confronting Putin in Ukraine, cutting corporate taxes. It really shouldn't take Tom Clancy speculation to puzzle out the praise.
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Replying to @ggreenwald @EricColumbus and
Trump has been confronting Putin in Ukraine? Or his Admin. Those are different things. He has also been sowing ugly Islamophobia, something Lindsey has always rightly opposed.
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Replying to @emptywheel @EricColumbus and
I think "Trump is doing things on a policy level important to Graham" is a more likely explanation than "Putin hacked Graham's emails, gave them to Trump, who is now using them to blackmail Graham into supporting Trump."
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Replying to @ggreenwald @EricColumbus and
Note I'm not saying Kompromat is the explanation. I'm saying rat-fucking is. Trump has _long_ used threats to get people to do his bidding. He didn't need to learn that from Putin.
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Tho I will say it's worth noting that Pompeo pointedly refused to forswear using hacked intel fr Russia. In his confirmation process.
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