Lindsey Graham Sounds Off Again After Fiery Kavanaugh Hearing Comments: ‘I Will Not Shut Up’

As the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process continued today, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it clear he was still angry about the whole thing.

He started by saying, “I know I’m a single white male from South Carolina and I’m told I should shut up, but I will not shut up, if that’s okay.”

Graham alluded to his past criticisms of President Donald Trump before trying to work with him in the past year, telling Trump he did a “good job” on the Supreme Court.

Graham said the reason Kavanaugh is different from Neil Gorsuch because “Gorsuch is an even swap for Scalia, but this is high stakes stuff. Right? This is the seat where the guy in the middle is at risk.”

He said elections have consequences but defended the decision to hold up Merrick Garland. Graham said every victim of sexual abuse needs to be heard before talking about Kavanaugh’s testimony yesterday:

“I’ve never heard a more compelling defense of one’s honor and integrity than I did from Brett Kavanaugh. He looked me in the eye, everybody in the eye, and he was mad and he should have been mad. He could tell you where he was at and what he was doing during high school in a way that just blew me away. Brett Kavanaugh and women. If you’re a gang rapist when you’re a sophomore and junior in high school, you don’t let it go. Every woman who actually knows Brett Kavanaugh has come forward to say he is not that kind of guy. He has been at the highest level of public service under tremendous scrutiny, six FBI investigations and we missed the sophomore junior gang rapist. We didn’t miss it. It’s a bunch of garbage.”

As for Christine Blasey Ford‘s allegations, Graham said, “I feel sorry for her and I do believe something happened to her and I don’t know when and where, but I don’t believe it was Brett Kavanaugh.”

“I feel really bad that she wanted to remain anonymous and could not,” he continued. “The one thing I know for sure is that Dianne Feinstein would not do this and did not do this. But I know for sure somebody did. It wasn’t chatter from a friend. Three groups had this letter that was requested to be anonymous. Dianne Feinstein and her staff, the congresswoman from California and her staff, and the lawyers. Somebody betrayed her trust and if you can’t figure out why, you shouldn’t be driving. To delay this hearing, to send a motion to the destruction of this man to keep this seat open past the election.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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