Senator Lindsey Olin Graham was born and raised in Central, South Carolina, where his parents ran a combination restaurant-bar-pool hall-liquor store, named "The Sanitary Cafe." He spent 6 years of active service in the US Air Force, and attached an additional 6 years in the South Carolina Air National Guard. His military service was after he received his B.A in psychology and the his J.D at the South Carolina School of Law.
He then entered politics - as a Republican - of course. He spent one term in the South Carolina state legislature, then moved on as a Representative in the US Congress, and then achieved the election as Senator.
When he first began working as a "public servant," he looked like this:
In July 2015, when Graham was a 2016 Presidential candidate, he called Donald Trump, then another Republican presidential candidate, "a jackass," because Trump said that Graham's friend, Senator John McCain, was "not a war hero." Trump reacted by calling Graham an "idiot" and revealing Graham's personal telephone number at a campaign rally, and asking his followers to call Graham.
In December 2015 Trump was the leading Republican presidential candidate and he called for a ban preventing Muslims from entering the United States. Graham, who didn't have much support, responded: "He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot ... He doesn't represent my [Republican] party ... I don't think he has a clue about anything ... He is empowering radical Islam ... You know how you make American great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell." Graham then added, "I'd rather lose without Donald Trump than try to win with him."
In June 2016, after Trump criticized a judge of Mexican heritage, implying the judge would be biased, Graham said to CNN: "I don't think he's racist, but he's playing the race cars ... I think it's very un-American ... If he continues this line of attack then I think people really need to consider the future of the [Republican] party." Graham also said to The New York Times that the incident with the judge "is probably it" for anyone looking to withdraw their support. He said, "There'll come a time when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary" Clinton, Trump's rival in the 2016 presidential election.
After the election, Graham said he couldn't bring himself to vote for Trump, and voted for Evan McMillan instead.
However, in March 2017, Trump and Graham had a personal meeting, and Graham has been a member of the whatever-Donald wants-Donald-gets Club ever since. His head is so far us the current president's rectum, that no one was really surprised when, on Wednesday, when he appeared for a Senate Judiciary hearing that was interrogating Rod Rosentein, Lindsey Graham now has Trump's trade-mark blond hair instead of his old, familiar gray....
The internet cried out in laughter when Senator Graham appeared with his new dyed color in place.
"OH MY GOD. Lindsay dyed his hair to look like Trump," Rick Wilson wrote at the top of the hearing. "CANNOT UNSEE."
Although the hearing intended to focus on Rod Rosentein and the investigation into Russia's election interference in 2016, commenters on the Internet were completely fixated on the chairman of the committee's new blond hair....
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