Analysis: Lindsey Graham kicked off Barr’s testimony by whipping up a Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 1 at 11:56 AM Sen. Lindsey O. Graham’s metamorphosis over the past three years has been remarkable, transforming from one of President Trump’s harshest critics on the campaign trail into one of his staunchest defenders on Capitol Hill.
Graham’s argument about Clinton operated along two tracks. The first was to suggest that the 2015-2016 investigation into her use of a private email server was flawed because it involved biased FBI agents. The second was to suggest that Clinton’s campaign attempted to obstruct that investigation by destroying information.
Except Trump himself, of course, who repeatedly claimed that Mueller was biased against him personally. “'Oh he’s’ — Trump’s — ‘abysmal. I keep hoping this charade will end and people will just dump him,’” Graham quoted one message as saying. He highlighted one exchange in which Strzok and Page discuss an “insurance policy” and talk about preventing Trump from winning.
“These are the people that made a decision that Clinton didn’t do anything wrong,” Graham said on Wednesday. “And,” he added, “that counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign was warranted” — introducing doubt about the validity of the probe that Barr was there to discuss.“As to cooperation in the Clinton investigation, I told you what the Trump people did,” Graham said. “Tell you a little bit about what the Clinton people did.
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