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Graham: Trump is 'the dark side of American politics,' 'selling fear and prejudice'
Washington Examiner ^ | 7/26/15 | Sarah Westwood

Posted on 07/26/2015 2:15:49 PM PDT by markomalley

Sen. Lindsey Graham fought back against Donald Trump Sunday after a week of trading barbs in the press.

"I would ask the Republican Party to understand why most major companies are firing Mr. Trump, and I don't think we should hire him," the South Carolina Republican said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"I'm taking on an idea that I think he's appealing to the dark side of American politics," Graham said. "He is not offering solutions to hard, complicated problems, and he's basically selling fear and prejudice."

Trump, who is also attempting to get the Republican presidential nod, escalated a feud with the senator when he gave out Graham's personal cell phone number during a speech.

Graham responded by shooting a video with IJ Review in which he employed various creative methods of destroying his cell phone.

"Donald Trump has done something my staff could never get me to do, which is get a new phone," Graham joked Sunday.

But he condemned Trump's often caustic campaign style.

"If you say most illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists, there are people that want to believe that," Graham said. "There's a market in my party, if you say outrageous things."


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irrelevancy; trump
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To: markomalley
"If you say most illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists, there are people that want to believe that," Graham said. "

Well, some surely are, but also about half of them are on welfare or food stamps. Most of the other half have stolen IDs so they can work jobs on the cheap and not pay taxes, or are members of deadly criminal gangs, or squirting out anchor babies so they can bring more of their deadbeat criminal relatives here to further milk the American taxpayers left who still have honest jobs. Oh, and they get to vote Democrat, cover everything with graffiti, and trash our national forests and parklands with garbage and drug grows. That's also important.

What is there not to like about these criminal invaders?

41 posted on 07/26/2015 3:15:31 PM PDT by Gritty (A citizenry that votes for an asshole is less deluded than one that votes for a messiah-Mark Steyn)
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To: markomalley

I think he’s down to minus 5 in the polls...


42 posted on 07/26/2015 3:22:21 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: txrefugee

The village (Senate) idiot has spoken.


43 posted on 07/26/2015 3:23:16 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: markomalley
"Graham: Trump is 'the dark side of American politics,' "

Graham is the backstabbing side of American politics.
44 posted on 07/26/2015 3:26:40 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: markomalley

[”I’m taking on an idea that I think he’s appealing to the dark side of American politics,”]

Said the (man) who can always be found in the dark side of any bathhouse in Washington.


45 posted on 07/26/2015 3:27:09 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: markomalley

Graham is dissing voters. He is a loser.


46 posted on 07/26/2015 3:29:42 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: BobL
The Republican Bosses must be telling gram to do this - maybe because everyone knows Gram is going nowhere in this Primary and he just won his seat again in SC, so he’s safe there too.

The bosses, of course, cannot do the attacking themselves, as Trump will unload on them and that can hurt bad. But Trump unloading on gram, keeps the firing off to the side.


47 posted on 07/26/2015 3:34:00 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: markomalley


48 posted on 07/26/2015 3:40:57 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: markomalley

Sen. Lindsey Gram is a lightweight


49 posted on 07/26/2015 3:41:12 PM PDT by tophat9000 (SCOTUS=Newspeak)
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To: markomalley

Well Graham you sold you soul so you have no room to speak.......


50 posted on 07/26/2015 3:49:17 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: tophat9000

No, Lady Lindsey is a PU#SY!


51 posted on 07/26/2015 3:54:10 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: markomalley
And, Obummer is the light and way. No offense Linhayseed, but, ObOzO is the dark side.
52 posted on 07/26/2015 4:44:48 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Libloather

I don’t recall Lindsey speaking out about Hussein’s comments.


Funny, I don’t recall Linda saying a word when the kenyan said the GOP was going to “make him choose between sick kids and poor kids” during a shut down fight.

At this rate Graham will get 1% in his home state primary. What a despicable piece of stuff he is.


53 posted on 07/26/2015 4:55:40 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: markomalley

shut up Linda!


54 posted on 07/26/2015 5:23:21 PM PDT by Leofl (I'm from Texas, we don't dial 9-11)
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To: markomalley

Who is this Linda Graham, anyway, and why should I listen to her?


55 posted on 07/26/2015 6:19:05 PM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dreyfus)
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To: markomalley

Dark side that is shedding light on cockroaches like Graham.


56 posted on 07/26/2015 6:39:47 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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