Lindsey Graham tells Donald Trump to begin the transition to Joe Biden
Yesterday morning, Palmer Report pointed out that the longer Donald Trump dragged out his loss, the worse it would look, and the more of his allies would end up selfishly selling him out in order to preserve their own political viability going forward.
Sure enough, since that time, Trump allies ranging from Karl Rove to Robert Jeffress to Sheldon Adelson have publicly told Donald Trump that it’s over. Now one of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders is weighing in. Lindsey Graham just told CNN that Trump should begin the transition process by giving Joe Biden access to presidential briefing materials.
Graham isn’t going so far as admitting that Donald Trump has lost. But once Joe Biden starts getting the presidential briefings, and his conversations with world leaders become shaped by those briefings, it’ll be impossible to put the genie back in the bottle. By telling Trump to start the transition, Graham is telling Trump that it’s over.
So why is Lindsey Graham doing this? Whatever weird fondness he may have for Donald Trump, he’s well aware that Trump has lost, and that Trump will no longer be relevant going forward. Graham’s ability to retain his current title as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman is also dependent on the Georgia Senate runoffs, and Trump’s sore loser antics are now threatening the Republicans’ prospects in those runoffs. We just wonder whom Graham will latch onto in bizarre clinical fashion next.
