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PatSeg

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18. He had his moments

Sun Jul 12, 2026, 11:15 AM

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when he was sincere and truthful, but invariably he would turn around and undo it all with his bizarre and slavish devotion to Trump.

Back in 2016, few people described Trump as accurately as Graham, but then he went the opposite direction.

"Trump is a race‑baiting, xenophobic bigot who should be told to go to hell."

"Trump is an interloper and a demagogue of the greatest proportion."

"The bottom line is I believe Donald Trump would be an absolute, utter disaster for the Republican Party, destroy conservatism as we know it," he said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "We would get wiped out and it would take generations to overcome a Trump candidacy."

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