Ep 2: A Trump’s Best Friend

While Lindsey Graham spent most of the 2016 campaign excoriating Trump as a toxic demagogue, he began transforming into his chief apologist after the election—in an effort to influence Trump on national security and foreign policy. But to get Trump to stand up to tyrants overseas, the senator soon found himself willing to compromise on rule of law at home.

From The Corruption of Lindsey Graham, authored and read by Will Saletan.

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