GOP/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Late last month, as damaging revelations about President Trump began piling up in the impeachment inquiry, conservative commentators and activists, including one of the president’s sons, trained their anger on an unlikely target: Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. Mr. Graham, normally one of the president’s most ardent defenders in the Senate, had ‘not lifted a finger to help this president,’ said the Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, a friend of Mr. Trump’s. ‘Lindsey Graham Keeps Making Empty Promises’ was the headline for a segment on Tucker Carlson’s prime-time Fox program. Donald Trump Jr. weighed in using a trending hashtag: ‘#WheresLindsey.’ Now, Mr. Graham, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who had a star turn in the nation’s last impeachment drama as a manager in the trial of President Bill Clinton, has surfaced as an aggressive and unapologetically partisan defender of Mr. Trump, even starting his own investigation into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter.”
–Catie Edmondson, “Where’s Lindsey? After G.O.P. Outcry, Graham Emerges as a Trump Defender,” The New York Times online, November 29, 2019