Republicans who spent years telling anyone with a camera that Donald Trump’s 2020 loss was “stolen” just got absolutely torched by their own private words under oath.
Newly unsealed grand jury testimony from the Georgia election interference case shows that the very GOP “allies” who stood next to Trump onstage privately told prosecutors they knew his stolen-election narrative was bullshit — and not in some abstract way, but bluntly. In those closed-door sessions from 2022, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham essentially dished Trump as a conspiracy addict and bashfully tried to talk him down from the ledge of fantasy. “If you told him Martians came and stole votes, he’d be inclined to believe it,” Graham told investigators.
That’s the same Lindsey Graham who will now call Trump “the greatest president of all time” on Fox News just days after Trump publicly mocked him for suggesting his 2024 campaign was some “comeback.” It’s like watching a dog bite a hand that feeds it — then publicly lick the boot.
Meanwhile in Georgia, other Republicans lawyered up with their own quiet rejections of Trump’s fraud claims. Gov. Brian Kemp reportedly told the grand jurors Trump asked him to force a special session of the legislature and to audit ballots — requests Kemp refused as outside the law and pointless.
Kemp’s state attorney general, Chris Carr, also admitted Trump called him trying to squelch efforts by other attorneys general to stop a Texas lawsuit trying to toss out legitimate state results. Carr told Trump directly that, “We’re just not seeing the things that you are seeing.”
And then there’s former Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, who described Trump’s fake elector scheme for swing states as, in his words, “the craziest thing I’ve heard.” That’s a pretty damn frank assessment from someone who’s spent his career inside the GOP machine.
So let’s get this straight: these folks — the same people screaming “weaponized prosecutions!” on behalf of Trump — privately agreed with prosecutors that Trump’s election fraud narrative was unfounded. And yet publicly? It’s torch and pitchfork time if a Democrat sneezes sideways.
Graham, ever the tour guide of political contradiction, fired off a statement to a news outlet after the release, pounding the usual defense playbook: that this is all part of a “politically driven hit job” and claiming he never accused Trump of breaking the law. But let’s be honest: telling a judge you tried to explain to Trump that he lost isn’t exactly MAGA spin control.
This collection of closed-door insults — both the blunt and the bureaucratic — doesn’t just embarrass Trump’s supporters. It exposes the deepest hypocrisy running through today’s GOP: relentless public posturing backed by private admissions that the emperor’s got no clothes.
