The initial revelations about the whistleblower complaint and transcript of President Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president made it difficult for Republicans to defend Trump. Now, after a month of actions by the White House that seemed designed to test the limits of their willingness to go along, the cracks in Republicans’ tenuous defense are starting to show.Here’s one of Trump’s most vocal defenders in the Senate, a lawmaker known for bending or ignoring the facts to back up Trump, opening the door to impeachment of the president:
“Sure. I mean … show me something that … is a crime,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) to Axios on HBO in an interview on Tuesday. “If you could show me that, you know, Trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing.”
View the complete October 21 article by Amber Phillips on The Washington Post website here.