He also believed in climate change back in those days, she continued, taking aim at the Republican for toeing party lines in recent years. I saw him as somebody who, you know, had been working to try to figure out what he believed and how he could do things.
Has he sold his soul to the devil? Stern prodded.
I dont know, Clinton responded. Thats a fair question, however.
I’ll be honest with you, she continued. I haven’t talked to him in a long time … It’s like he had a brain snatch, you know?
During her run against President Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign, Graham pegged Trump as a nutjob and a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot, predicting if the GOP nominated him, they would be destroyed and we will deserve it.
But Graham, McCains close friend in the Senate, transformed from one of Trumps sharpest Republican critics to a Trump loyalist, despite the Presidents public insults of McCain, including his denial of McCains status as a war hero because he was captured.
What I don’t understand is how [Graham] went from being the friend and the real confidant of the Maverick John McCain who I didn’t agree with politically, but I found him to be a man of integrity, a man of real strength and conviction, Clinton lamented in the sprawling interview, which covered her 2016 loss to Trump, religion and the 2020 Democratic candidate field.
Clinton recalled Grahams tribute to her in TIME Magazines 100 leaders and revolutionaries in 2006, a decade prior to the Republicans shift to attacking her during the 2016 election cycle for her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of State.
I dont know whats happened to Lindsey Graham, she said.
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