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One of President Trump’s most dogged, and surprising, defenders in the US Senate is South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. How Graham morphed from a rather outspoken critic of President Trump during the GOP primaries has been a matter of study. The New York Times did a very good piece on the transformation…spoiler alert: Graham wants a Republican president to succeed. But this hasn’t stopped some very bizarre speculation, for instance, MSNBC Host Claims Donald Trump Is Blackmailing Lindsey Graham

But during this whole collusion nonsense, Graham has been one of the few senators willing to actually push back against the insanity. Indeed, working as Chuck Grassley’s second-in-command in the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was critical at picking at the loose ends of the now collusion conspiracy theory. And as it became obvious that the investigation was winding down, Graham was among the first to begin describing what the “day after” might look like, see Lindsey Graham Vows To Find Out If Rod Rosenstein Was Duplicitous Scum Or Merely A Liar and there was the epic Twitter response he sent to the pompous, self-righteous James Comey (see my colleague Tom LaDuke’s coverage of that Sen. Lindsey Graham Drops Twitter Bomb On James Comey).

At 11:30 today, Graham gave a press conference on what he sees at the next steps in finding out how we got to the point of a two-year investigation that found nothing of substance.

This is the gist, via Washington Examiner:

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said Monday that he’ll launch his own investigation into the 2016 election, but he’ll focus on anti-Trump FBI employees and Democrats’ payments to fund the Steele dossier.

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He said that includes getting answers from fired FBI Director James Comey and tracking down the use of the anti-Trump Steele dossier in a secret court wiretap warrant. And he chided reporters for ignoring those issues in favor of an obsessions with Mr. Trump.

🔥WOKE LINDSEY GRAHAM DROPS HAMMER 🔥

Calls for NEW Special Counsel to investigate:

– FBI
– DOJ
– Hillary Clinton
– Andrew McCabe
– James Comey
– Fusion GPS
– James Clapper
– John Brennan
– Fake Trump Dossier
– FISA warrant process
– Anyone who wanted to spy on Trump campaign pic.twitter.com/ATv2CO6gRY

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 25, 2019

Here are some video highlights via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/ChatByCC/status/1110208729356619776

Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC: "The conclusion was firm, without equivocation, that no one on the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians when it came to the 2016 election." pic.twitter.com/L2JXlPXW2h

— CSPAN (@cspan) March 25, 2019

Lindsey Graham has decided the logical next step is to go AFTER Mueller:"The FISA warrant issued against Carter Page based on a dossier prepared by Christopher Steele is at a minimum disturbing. Whether or not it's illegal, I don't yet know, so I'm going to get answers to this." pic.twitter.com/3ILz16ykB7

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) March 25, 2019

NEW: Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham says he hopes Attorney General Barr "will come to the committee, release as much as possible of the Mueller report." https://t.co/G4CCQM7Qte pic.twitter.com/d9jXBUd2VC

— ABC News (@ABC) March 25, 2019

MORE: Sen. Lindsey Graham on Barr's letter to Congress on Mueller report: "The Russians did in fact hack into the DNC, the Podesta emails. It was the Russians. It wasn't some 300-pound guy sitting on a bed somewhere." https://t.co/LfYKBSiYcQ pic.twitter.com/ieEAvO540L

— ABC News (@ABC) March 25, 2019

"Why did Comey do what he did?" Sen. Lindsey Graham says in reference to Clinton email investigation. "That did affect this election, and if the shoe were on the other foot, Republicans would have been pretty mad about that." https://t.co/Ok2u3Laebm pic.twitter.com/auYApBaf0B

— ABC News (@ABC) March 25, 2019

Sen. Lindsey Graham: "I believe that Donald Trump got scrutiny like nobody else in the history of the presidency, since Nixon probably … to those who were abusive of the process in 2016 on the other side, you haven't had much scrutiny, but that's coming" https://t.co/jDcFIi8ll8 pic.twitter.com/Bjqzffp0v2

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 25, 2019

Graham is on the right track. But he’s not going far enough. More on that later.

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