{"id":379742,"date":"2018-10-05T08:41:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T07:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-dont-we-dunk-him-see-if-he-floats-sen-graham-rebuffs-kavanaugh-protester-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T07:41:23","slug":"why-dont-we-dunk-him-see-if-he-floats-sen-graham-rebuffs-kavanaugh-protester-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-dont-we-dunk-him-see-if-he-floats-sen-graham-rebuffs-kavanaugh-protester-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why don\u2019t we dunk him &#038; see if he floats?\u2019 Sen. Graham rebuffs Kavanaugh protester \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.10\/thumbnail\/5bb652d2fc7e93b32a8b45b2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Accosted by a protester demanding that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh take a lie detector test, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) quipped that maybe Kavanaugh should be subjected to a witch hunt test instead.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cIf he would take a polygraph, this would all be over!\u201d<\/em> a woman yelled at Graham inside a corridor on Capitol Hill on Thursday, in a moment captured on camera.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhy don\u2019t we dunk him in the water and see if he floats?\u201d<\/em> Graham shot back, referring to the medieval practice used to ferret out witches.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LindseyGrahamSC<\/a> to protestor yelling Kav should take polygraph: \u201cwe\u2019ve humiliated this guy enough, and there seems to be no bottom for some of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protestor: \u201cIf he took a polygraph \u2013\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham: \u201cWhy don\u2019t we dunk him in the water and see if he floats?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2WOX2HNDRd\">pic.twitter.com\/2WOX2HNDRd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1047885504077811712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve humiliated this guy enough, and there seems to be no bottom for some of you,\u201d<\/em> he said, looking at the protester.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt will never be enough. If you don\u2019t believe he is a gang rapist, if you don\u2019t believe he is a stumbling, bumbling drunk, serial sexual predator, maybe you will believe he lied about how much he drank in high school. Threw ice at a party. Or he doesn\u2019t have the temperament. Let\u2019s vote,\u201d<\/em> Graham told reporters afterward, referring to the ever-expanding litany of claims against Kavanaugh by Democrats, who have been opposed to his nomination from the start.<\/p>\n<p>After delaying the floor vote pending a FBI background investigation &#8211; demanded by Democrats and endorsed by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), the Senate will likely take up the matter over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI investigation found <em>\u201cno hint of misconduct\u201d<\/em> by Kavanaugh, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).<\/p>\n<p>Graham has been a staunch defender of Kavanaugh, a federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/440353-graham-protester-dunk-kavananaugh\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accosted by a protester demanding that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh take a lie detector test, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) quipped that maybe Kavanaugh should be subjected to a witch hunt test instead. \u201cIf he would take a polygraph, this would all be over!\u201d a woman yelled at Graham inside a corridor on Capitol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}