(Linz said) he “cannot in good conscience support Donald Trump because I do not believe he is a reliable Republican conservative, nor has he displayed the judgment and temperament to serve as commander in chief.” The next it’s: “Donald Trump was my friend before the riot, and I’m trying to keep a relationship with him after the riot.”

On Oct. 28, 2013, Graham tweeted that until more information about the survivors of the attack on Benghazi, Libya, was available, he was going to “block every appointment in the U.S. Senate.” Two days later he said he was looking forward to confirming Jeh Johnson as secretary of Homeland Security.

“Here’s where we are in 2022,” he said. “The only person qualified to go to the Supreme Court as an African American woman is a liberal. You can be equally qualified as a conservative, but you need not apply because your ideology disqualifies you.”

“Her record is overwhelming in its lack of a steady judicial philosophy and a tendency to achieve outcomes in spite of what the law requires or common sense would dictate,” he said. Yet, despite all of his supposed concerns, he was one of three Republicans — along with Murkowski and Collins — to vote in favor of confirming Jackson for the appeals court last June. It was reminiscent of the time Graham defended the Confederate flag one week by saying “it works here” and the next week saying “I hope that, by removing the flag, we can take another step towards healing and recognition — and a sign that South Carolina is moving forward.”

Courtesy LA Times