The Washington Post reports that South Carolina's emotional little weathervane and Trump fluffer Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham (Sedition-SC) is changing his hostile tune toward the corrupt regime of thuggish Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin "Bone Saw" Salman. After once calling for Bone Saw to be deposed and demanding sanctions on his "toxic" regime, Graham is now in a friendlier mood. Was it a sudden change in the Saudi's anti-Western stance on oil production, it's Russia-friendly diplomatic stance, or reversing its renewed ties with terrorist Iran? No, it's about money, specifically $37 billion in bloody Saudi petrodollars:
"Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who once promised a 'bipartisan tsunami' against Saudi Arabia in the wake of the 2018 assassination of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, held what he called a 'very productive' meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday.
'I just had a very productive, candid meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince and his senior leadership team,' Graham tweeted on Tuesday. 'The opportunity to enhance the U.S.-Saudi relationship is real and the reforms going on in Saudi Arabia are equally real.' [snip]
After the meeting Tuesday, Graham also said he looks forward to 'working with the administration and congressional Republicans and Democrats to see if we can take the U.S.-Saudi relationship to the next level.'
He added that he thanked Mohammed for Saudi Arabia’s purchase of '$37 billion worth of Boeing 787s — which are made in South Carolina — for the new Saudi airline.'
'Investments like this are game changers,' he said." (our emphasis)
"Investments" indeed. To the Saudis, this is confirmation that American politicians can always be bought off, it's the price that's negotiable.
The Saudis under Bone Saw are getting well known for their attempted "sportswashing" of their terrible, and deserved, image of corruption, misogyny, autocracy, and backstabbing. It looks like they took some bribery soap to Huckleberry and scrubbed him down, but the stink will still linger.
(photo: Huckleberry and Bone Saw/ Saudi Press Agency)
