who talked to the New York Post.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\u201cHis phone rang and he answered, \u2018Hey, Jared!\u2019 He was .\u2009.\u2009. saying he\u2019s going to be on \u2018Face the Nation\u2019 on Sunday. He said, \u2018Listen \u2014 this is what I\u2019m going to lay out,\u2019\u200a\u201d we\u2019re told.<\/p>\n
Graham was overheard uttering, \u201cThis is Kavanaugh on steroids! This is hearsay \u2014 and this person has bias.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was like, \u2018We need to know why Hunter [Biden] was receiving $50K\u2019\u200a\u201d for being on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma,” the source told the Post. \u201cHe then said, \u2018You can\u2019t impeach someone on hearsay.\u2019 He was laying out his story for Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt clearly was not classified info. He was literally yelling this s\u200a-\u200a-\u200at. He also said, \u2018Don\u2019t release anything until Sunday.\u2019 He was the first off the plane and didn\u2019t appear to have any bags.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Saturday in the Graham orbit became all about Linda Tripp.<\/p>\n
Tripp became friendly with Monica Lewinsky when the pair worked together at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration. After Lewinsky revealed to Tripp that she\u2019d had a physical relationship with the president, Tripp started to egg on the younger woman to provide more detail, and secretly recorded their phone calls.<\/p>\n
The tapes eventually caught Clinton in a lie after he had denied having a relationship with Lewinsky, creating a scandal that led to his impeachment.<\/p>\n
Graham, 64, was a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the Clinton impeachment. Twitter critics pounced on him for equating Tripp\u2019s example with the current case, which centers on an allegation that Trump improperly solicited the help of a foreign leader to investigate a political rival.<\/p>\n
A U.S. intelligence official, whose identity isn\u2019t publicly disclosed, filed a whistle-blower complaint alleging that Trump, during a July 25 telephone call with Ukraine\u2019s president, used \u201cthe power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the call, Trump asked Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelenskiy to \u201clook into\u201d unsubstantiated allegations of wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden, who is seeking the Democratic Party\u2019s nomination to challenge Trump next year.<\/p>\n
One person engaging with Graham was Representative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat with a lively Twitter feed, who said that admitting to soliciting a foreign power \u201cwould absolutely be admissible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump and Graham teed it up again on Saturday at the president\u2019s Virginia club, along with Hall of Fame golfers Gary Player and Annika Sorenstam.<\/p>\n
Material from Bloomberg news service was used in this story.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a9 2019 Newsmax. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n
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