.MaddowBlog: Sen. Lindsey Graham prepared to ignore Mueller report findings.
The Atlantic published an interesting piece this morning from J. W. Verret, a Republican law professor at George Mason University, who spent a few months serving on Donald Trump’s transition team in 2016. Verret, who’s also worked with Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, and the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee, spent the weekend reading Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report – twice.
“Politics is a team sport, and if you actively work within a political party, there is some expectation that you will follow orders and rally behind the leader, even when you disagree,” he wrote. “There is a point, though, at which that expectation turns from a mix of loyalty and pragmatism into something more sinister, a blind devotion that serves to enable criminal conduct.”It may be tempting to think Verret won’t have to stand alone among his GOP brethren.
“I’m all good, I’m done with the Mueller report,” said Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham in an interview with CNN in South Carolina. “We will have Barr come in and tell us about what he found. I made sure that Mueller was able to do his job without interference. The Mueller report is over for me. Done.”On the contrary, the South Carolina Republican, who’s up for re-election next year in his ruby-red state, is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
This is, of course, the same Lindsey Graham who had a very different perspective in 1999, when he voted to impeach Bill Clinton for obstruction of justice, and then pleaded with senators to remove that Democratic president from office.
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