Lindsey Graham Completely ‘Threw Trump Under the Bus’ During Grand Jury Testimony in Georgia: New Book

The always tenuous alliance between Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and former President Donald Trump appears to have hit the rocks — a new book reveals.

According to a new book by Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidmanin titled,“Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election,” the South Carolina senator “threw Trump under the bus” when he testified before the grand jury in Georgia back in November 2022.

In a brief preview of the book published by Politico on Wednesday, the authors reported Graham “turned on a dime” after fighting a subpoena in the case for four months. As part of his testimony, Graham reportedly said that if you told Trump “Martians came and stole the election, he’d probably believe you.”

The authors also report that Graham — a longtime golf buddy of Trump’s — even went after Trump’s prowess on the links.

“He also suggested to the grand jurors that Trump cheated at golf,” the authors wrote.

Graham once famously claimed after a 2017 round, “President Trump shot a 73 in windy and wet conditions!” The senator teed it up with Trump that day at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia — a notoriously difficult track which hosted the Senior PGA championship that year. The score that Graham claimed Trump shot in “windy and wet conditions” would have been more than sufficient for him to make the cut in that tournament.

The authors also detailed a “strange encounter” between Graham and Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis after the senator’s testimony.

From the book:

“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,”‘”

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