Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor,
a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election
by
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman
Lindsey Graham ‘threw Trump under the bus’ in
Georgia case, book says
Senator told grand jury in election subversion case
Trump would have believed martians stole the election, per Find Me the Votes
Martin
Pengelly in Washington
@MartinPengelly
Wed 24 Jan
2024 15.50 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/24/find-me-the-votes-book-graham-trump-georgia
The South
Carolina senator Lindsey Graham “threw Donald Trump under the bus” in testimony
to a grand jury investigating election subversion in Georgia, a new book
reportedly says, revealing that the former president would have believed
“martians came and stole the election” he lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
“After
fighting a four-month legal battle all the way to the US supreme court to block
his grand jury subpoena – and losing … Graham turned on a dime ‘and threw Trump
under the bus’,” Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman write in Find Me the
Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to
Steal an American Election, Politico reported.
“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.”
The book,
which cites “a source familiar with [Graham’s] testimony”, will be published
next week.
Trump’s
cheating at golf has been widely reported.
Isikoff and
Klaidman also reportedly describe a “strange encounter” between Graham and Fani
Willis, the Fulton county district attorney who has pursued the election
subversion case, producing 13 criminal charges against Trump and charging a
host of his allies.
Willis
reportedly decided against charging Graham over his involvement in Trump’s
attempt to overturn Biden’s win in the state.
“After
Graham was finished testifying,” Isikoff and Klaidman write, “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.”
Trump’s
criminal charges in Georgia contribute to a total of 91, as do four federal
charges concerning his attempt to overturn his 2020 defeat by Biden.
The former
president also faces 40 charges over the retention of classified information;
34 regarding hush-money payments to an adult film actor who claimed an affair;
civil lawsuits over his business affairs and a defamation claim arising from a
rape allegation a judge said was “substantially true”; and attempts to remove
him from the ballot, for inciting the January 6 insurrection.
Nonetheless,
he has dominated the Republican presidential primary, winning convincingly in
Iowa and New Hampshire and now pressuring his last rival, the former South
Carolina governor Nikki Haley, to drop out.
Graham
remains, in public, a vocal Trump supporter, oblivious to charges of hypocrisy
given a famous 2016 prediction that Trump would “destroy” the Republican party,
and given a claim, immediately after the attack on Congress, that he was
finally “out” of Trump’s camp.
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