Lindsey Graham Swears He's Not In A Trump Cult Then Rants About Hillary Clinton

During an appearance on Fox News this week, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was asked to respond to comments from Hillary Clinton about the GOP being a Trump cult. Graham swore that he wasn't in a cult, saying that his past "pushback" on Trump is proof of that. But he then immediately started ranting about Hillary Clinton and her alleged misdeeds, which only made him sound like a brainwashed cultist, as Farron Cousins explains.

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Hillary Clinton this week made the statement that the entire Republican party is acting more like a cult than they are a political party. In fact, her exact statement was, they're more of a cult than a political party at this point, and they're gonna stick with their leader. And of course, that obviously didn't sit very well with Republican lawmakers like Lindsey Graham. So Lindsey Graham went on Fox News this week with Jesse Waters, and Jesse Waters specifically asked Lindsey Graham, are you in a cult? After he played the clip from Hillary Clinton. And to be honest, I don't know what Jesse Waters was expecting to happen. I mean, obviously this is a softball question, giving Lindsay Graham the opportunity to be like, no, we're not in a cult. But I think it also would've been hilarious if Lindsay Graham was just like, oh yeah, yeah, we are. Why? And then put it back on Jesse Water.

Watch him be like, oh, okay. Um, but anyway, Lindsay Graham totally insisted he's not an occult. And then immediately went into a cult-like defense of Donald Trump. Here is what Lindsay Graham said in response to the question, uh, are you an occult senator? That was the question. Here is the answer. I'm an American who believes that if you believe Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted, you probably should believe that Trump should be prosecuted. If you believe she should get a pass, Trump should get a pass before I continue. What does that even mean? So Lindsay, you're saying that all of these Republicans out there who think that Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted, if you think she should be prosecuted, then you have to think that Trump should also be prosecuted. So Lindsay, what you're actually saying is that all of those MAGA freaks out there should be calling for Trump to be prosecuted because they also want Hillary to be prosecuted.

And then you're saying that everybody on the left who thinks that Hillary should not be prosecuted, we therefore have to think that Trump should not be prosecuted. That's, that's interesting. It's, it's dumb as hell. And to be honest, it's pretty much exactly what we would expect from a cult member. But then again, in your statement, and that's how you started it off, you did not yet deny that you were in a cult, but Lindsey Graham did continue. No, I'm not in a cult. So he finally got around to admitting like, whoa. Well, by the way, no, I'm not. You know, I have taken the president on when I think he's wrong, but, uh, what they're doing to President Trump is a game changer for the presidency. They, they've taken the law and turned it upside down on numerous occasions to get him. No, they haven't. No laws in the United States have been turned upside down. If anything, the laws have actually been upheld. And let's not forget that even people who have, uh, you know, not necessarily some folks on the left who have not necessarily been in Trump's corner obviously, but have been, uh, critical of this whole thing. Even

They have pointed out that typically when somebody is found to be in violation of, you know, disseminating classified information, they're not allowed to be free. Like they do get held by the federal government when they're charged with the things Trump's Trump has been charged with until trial. Trump, on the other hand, was not held. He wasn't fingerprinted, he didn't have a mugshot, he wasn't put in handcuffs. None of the usual things that happened to criminals happened to Donald Trump. They are treating him with kid gloves. And let's not forget, they didn't wanna prosecute him in the first place. Right. They gave him over a year to just give the documents back and it's over. And he chose not to do that, Lindsay. But you know that, but you can't say that because you're in a cult.

Lindsay Graham continued. He, uh, you don't have to be in a cult to find this offensive. He then said, Trump's opponents are destroying the country in the name of trying to keep one man off the ballot. Let the people decide whether Donald Trump should be president.