<p>The old saying goes, &#8220;If you need a friend in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington</a>, buy a dog.&#8221; It seems <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lindsey-graham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)</a> is learning that lesson the hard way when it comes to his friendship with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>.</p>
<p>For the apparent sin of not condemning the MAGA movement, Graham has gone from being one of Biden&#8217;s best buds in D.C. to being considered a threat to the entire American way of life.</p>
<p>In 2015, when Graham was seeking the presidency, he recounted with tears in his eyes how good of a friend Biden had been to him.</p>
<p>&#8220;The bottom line is, if you can&#8217;t admire Joe Biden as a person, that&#8217;s probably your problem,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;You got a problem. You need to do some self-evaluation because what&#8217;s not to like?&#8221;</p>
<p>Graham even went on to say that the then-vice president&#8217;s character was second-to-none while commenting on the personal tragedy that Biden has gone through.</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s the nicest person I think I&#8217;ve ever met in politics,&#8221; he added &#8220;He is as good a man as God ever created.&#8221;</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Lindsey Graham Chokes Up Talking About Joe Biden" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kLMYW8jFPHg?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Since Trump was inaugurated in 2017, Graham has been partial to him — even if the two disagreed on certain issues.</p>
<p>It would appear that the friendship Graham waxed poetic about has gone out the window because of that.</p>
<p>The South Carolina senator recently <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/graham-faces-backlash-claiming-violence-break-trump-prosecuted/story?id=89007784" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> that if Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice tries &#8220;to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after Hillary Clinton set up a server in her basement, there literally will be riots in the street.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I worry about our country,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>A generous reading of Graham&#8217;s statement would be that he was predicting riots — not that he was advocating for them — if the unprecedented action occurred.</p>
<p>Yet that is not how the White House viewed it; Biden&#8217;s gang seems to think Graham is part of an extreme faction of Americans coarsening politics and endangering our nation&#8217;s very foundation.</p>
<p>On Monday, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about Graham&#8217;s comments in light of Biden&#8217;s claim that semi-fascism is running amok in the GOP.</p>
<p>&#8220;So, um, we have seen MAGA Republicans attack our democracy. We have seen MAGA Republicans take away our rights, make threats of violence — including this weekend,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said while gesturing to the reporter who asked the question. &#8220;And that is what the president was referring to when you all asked me last week about the semi-fascism comment.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And he was clear — not all Republicans. There are some mainstream Republicans — he mentioned the Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan, and talked about him and what he&#8217;s been doing and how he called him out of being that mainstream Republican,&#8221; she added. &#8220;But we have seen these MAGA extreme Republicans making these kind of comments, which is dangerous, and this is what we are talking about when Joe Biden &#8230; was making his comments.&#8221;</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Karine Jean-Pierre holds a White House briefing" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DSNGUEUqmCs?start=1734&#038;feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>On Thursday, Jean-Pierre doubled down, again saying that Biden considers MAGA Republicans to be a &#8220;threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Karine Jean-Pierre says that people who voted for Donald Trump are &#8220;a threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/8e2fXP2sD7">pic.twitter.com/8e2fXP2sD7</a></p>
<p>— John Cooper (@thejcoop) <a href="https://twitter.com/thejcoop/status/1565055591634112515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Not only is the White House apparently saying Graham is an extremist, but they are of course saying that Trump voters are as well.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the lesson here isn&#8217;t that the South Carolina senator is some MAGA extremist. Of course, he isn&#8217;t. He isn&#8217;t even MAGA-lite, but that&#8217;s for another column.</p>
<p>The lesson is that Biden isn&#8217;t the nice guy Graham once thought. In actuality, he&#8217;s very much a demagogue who throws anybody under the bus who stands in his way — including his friend and half the nation in the process.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>

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