The spam thingamabob on my email account keeps consigning Politico Playbook to the trash. It’s in my contacts, but I guess the program knows that I’m often disdainful of Politico, home of GOP slanted horse race political coverage. I’m glad that I rescued this morning’s edition from the junk folder:

 A new book reveals that Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.) “threw Trump under the bus” during Graham’s secret grand jury testimony in the Georgia election subversion case.

 

The new revelation was unearthed by Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidmanin in “Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election”  on sale Jan. 30:

 

“After fighting a four-month legal battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to block his grand jury subpoena — and losing — South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham turned on a dime ‘and threw Trump under the bus,’ according to a source familiar with his testimony. According to secret grand jury testimony in Fulton County confirmed by the authors, Graham testified that if you told Trump ‘That Martians came and stole the election, he’d probably believe you.’

 

“He also suggested to the grand jurors that Trump cheated at golf. After Graham was finished testifying, he bumped into FANI WILLIS in a hallway and thanked her for the opportunity to tell his story. ‘That was so cathartic,’ he told Willis. ‘I feel so much better.’ Then, to the astonishment of one source who witnessed the scene, South Carolina’s senior senator hugged the Fulton County DA who was aggressively pursuing Trump. Willis’s reaction: ‘She was like “whatever, dude,”’ according to one witness of the strange encounter.”

Classic behavior from the Incredible Mr. Lindsey who I’ve described as a puffer fish in the past. A reminder: A puffer fish is a small fish that hovers around a predator to feed on its leftovers. Graham is not only a Trump dignity wraith, he’s now a Fani Willis dignity wraith. She could use a win right now.

FYI, Little Lindsey is not the first person to accuse the Kaiser of Chaos of cheating at golf. Rick Reilly got there first with his 2019 book, Commander In Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump. How about another quote?

Donald Trump is the worst cheat ever and he doesn’t care who knows,” Rick Reilly says as he describes a man he has known for 30 years. “I always say golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man. And golf reveals a lot of ugliness in this president.”

Let’s circle back to the opening paragraph and give 10cc the last word: