By Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
CNN
September 24, 2021
(CNN)The one ironclad rule of friendship with Donald Trump is this: Eventually, he will turn on you.
That time came on Thursday for South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has sacrificed much over the past four years to ingratiate himself with Trump, in the wake of the release of “Peril,” a book on Trump’s final year in office.
The book by authors Bob Woodward and Robert Costa documents Graham’s repeated — and unsuccessful — attempts to convince Trump to concede the 2020 election.
Trump, naturally, responded by savaging Graham, as well as fellow Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.