Lindsey Graham Credits Trump for ‘Tough’ Leadership
When President Donald Trump first entered the Oval Office two years ago, Sen. Lindsey Graham was a little reticent to give out his phone number.
“President Trump and I did not start well,” the South Carolina Republican said in remarks Thursday to hundreds of conservative activists. “But now I’ve given him my phone number.”
Trump famously gave out Graham’s old cellphone number to the world when both men were seeking the Republican nomination for president.
“We’ve got a lot in common. I like him, and he likes him,” Graham quipped, provoking laughter.
Graham, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told his audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference that he was “never more proud of Trump” than during the ultimately successful effort to win Senate confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Graham attracted the admiration of skeptical conservatives in September, when he made an impassioned defense of Kavanaugh as fellow Judiciary Committee members weighed a newly surfaced accusation that the nominee sexually assaulted a teenage girl when they were in high school.
“I want to thank the president for nominating Brett,” Graham said at CPAC. “He did something not everyone does. He had somebody’s back when it really mattered. There were a bunch …read more