{"id":379216,"date":"2018-10-01T03:34:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lindsey-graham-battles-hecklers-during-tv-interview\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T03:34:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T02:34:12","slug":"lindsey-graham-battles-hecklers-during-tv-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lindsey-graham-battles-hecklers-during-tv-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham battles hecklers during TV interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/hepersisted-lindsey-graham-battles-hecklers-during-tv-interview\/\"><strong>American Mirror<\/strong><\/a><br \/>Sept 28, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The left came unglued today as Judge Brett Kavanaugh defended himself and Republicans senators supported him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham was chased by a group of agitators through the Capitol as he attempted to give an interview to Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocey.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LINDSEY GRAHAM moments ago on Fox (with protesters yelling behind him):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These people can yell all they want to. Doesn&#8217;t matter. I believe him.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xyOiaGZnOF\">pic.twitter.com\/xyOiaGZnOF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiegerReport\/status\/1045453175912894464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, he persisted.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought what they did to Kavanaugh was despicable,\u201d Graham said over the shouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel sorry for Dr. Ford,\u201d he continued, unflinching amid the finger-waving and heckling.<\/p>\n<p>One nasty woman was just inches from hitting Graham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people can yell all they want to,\u201d he said, pointing over his shoulder to the agitators continuing to aggressively follow him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoesn\u2019t matter. I believe him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s all about power. It\u2019s all about delaying the hearing to keep the seat open. It\u2019s not about the truth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Those comments were similar to the ones earlier in the day when he erupted at his Democrat colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come to us. What you want to do is destroy this guy\u2019s life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020,\u201d Graham said, pointing his finger at the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most unethical sham since I\u2019ve been in politics. And if you wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn\u2019t have done what you\u2019ve done to this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoy, you all want power. God, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham,\u201d Graham said. \u201cYou had no intention of protecting Dr. Ford. None! She\u2019s as much as a victim as you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, September 28, 2018 &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/hepersisted-lindsey-graham-battles-hecklers-during-tv-interview.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American MirrorSept 28, 2018 The left came unglued today as Judge Brett Kavanaugh defended himself and Republicans senators supported him. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham was chased by a group of agitators through the Capitol as he attempted to give an interview to Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocey. LINDSEY GRAHAM moments ago on Fox (with protesters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}