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Lindsey Graham just dropped the F-bomb on live TV - The Boston Globe

posted onMay 5, 2019
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Article snippet: Senator Lindsey Graham uttered a curse word on live TV during the testimony of Attorney General William Barr before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, leading to some tittering among those who watched. The Republican senator from South Carolina, who chairs the committee, was reading text excerpts from then-FBI agent Peter Strzok — a senior counterintelligence official who faced scrutiny for his anti-Trump comments — which were included in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report, when he dropped the F-bomb. “October the 19th, 2016: ‘Trump is a [expletive] idiot. He’s unable to provide a coherent answer,’” Graham read, quoting one of Strzok’s texts. Without missing a beat, Graham seemed to realize that he just swore, adding, “Sorry to the kids out there,” before continuing on his train of thought. It some news networks carrying the hearings live Tuesday morning. Barr was testifying before Congress amid the release of a March 27 letter from Mueller complaining that Barr’s four-page summary of the report ‘‘did not fully capture the context, nature and substance’’ of the special counsel’s ‘‘work and conclusions.’’ Graham said in his opening statement that he’s ready to move on from the Mueller report, saying that for him, ‘‘it’s over.’’ Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. Link to the full article to read more

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