Trump has taught Lindsey Graham to lie

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) may be getting -- or hoping to get -- some important favor from President Trump.   It's not clear what -- either an appointment as Attorney General to replace Jeff Sessions or, as has been reported, Secretary of Defense, to replace Mattis when he leaves.

But one thing is not in doubt.   Lindsey Graham has sold his political soul to Trump . . . for something.    Remember his denunciation of Trump, during the presidential campaign, when he declared Trump totally unfit to be president.    Now he's one of Trump's chief defenders on TV and a frequent golfing buddy.

Here's the sad thing.  Trump's corruption is corrupting Lindsey Graham.   He's learning to lie, just like Trump.   And remember Graham's angry outburst during the Kavanaugh hearings that turned the tide back to Kavanaugh?  That was pure Trumpism.

Last week, when the new job numbers came out, Graham  bragged on social media about the number of jobs President Trump had created during his 21 months in office.   He said that, if President Obama's jobs numbers had been "anywhere close" to Trump's, " the media would stop the Earth from rotating to make sure everybody heard about it."

There's a problem -- as there always is with Trump's claims -- and now with Little Lindsey as well.  In Obama's final 21 months in office, the jobs numbers were better than Trump's by nearly half a million.   Obama added 4.47 million in 21 months, while Trump had only 4.05 million.

Now Lindsey Graham is not my favorite senator.   In fact, probably the best thing about him was that John McCain seemed to like him a lot.   But, now that this best bud is gone from the earth, Lindsey seems to have turned to Trump as a replacement.

How ironic, given Trump's cruel and small-minded insult to McCain -- saying that McCain was a hero only because he was captured by the Vietnamese;  and he, Donald Trump, preferred those who didn't get caught.

Trump has absolutely no standing to pass judgment on McCain's heroism, given that he avoided the war altogether by getting a doctor to say he had "bone spurs" in his heel  (that same long-haired dude, perhaps, who declared Trump's health to be "extremely excellent"?   No doctor uses language like that.)

So, Lindsey, what is it that you're angling for by kissing up to Trump?    Or does he perhaps have something incriminating on you?

Ralph