Ari Melber said Wednesday he thought Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) was a “particularly troubled figure.”
Graham has a “self-defeating obsession” with winning over former President Donald Trump “even though he initially warned more than many about Trump’s seriousness,” the host of MSNBC’s “The Beat” said.
Ahead of the 2016 election, Graham repeatedly warned against Trump taking office. But then he became one of the former president’s biggest defenders.
This makes Graham “a particularly troubled character because public records show he knows exactly what he’s doing,” Melber said. “It can be different from someone who is caught up in emotion, or who is a true believer, even a misguided one.”
Graham suffered “humiliation” over the weekend when he was booed and called a “traitor” by Donald Trump fans at the former president’s rally in South Carolina, Melber said.
Trump only reluctantly defended the senator, who dismissed the former president’s baseless election-rigged claims. Melber ended the segment with a montage of discordant comments made by Graham about Trump.
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