South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has made little attempt to hide his disdain for the current crop of GOP presidential frontrunners, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. With the latter, he’s now proven he’ll even stoop low enough to use Democrat talking points to try and smear Trump.
Graham did just that on a recent episode of The O’Reilly Factor with Bill O’Reilly. He parroted something Democrats have been trying to push in their own narrative – that Trump has labeled a majority of illegal immigrants as rapists and drug dealers.
Trump’s quote was:
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best,” he said during the announcement. “They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.”
Bad people crossing the border doesn’t equate to ‘a majority of them are rapists and drug dealers.’
O’Reilly quickly called Graham on it, replying “he didn’t say that” and reminded Graham that he was talking about a certain segment of the illegal immigration population.
Watch the exchange below …
The friction between Trump and Graham has been tangible for quite some time. At one point during the campaign, Trump gave out Lindsey Graham’s personal cell phone number and told reporters, “He doesn’t seem like a bright guy.”
Here’s a video of Trump laughing off Graham’s support for Jeb Bush.
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