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Graham Overheard on Plane Flight

September 28, 2019 · 8:27 am ET · Leave a Comment

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Friday gave a commercial flight a private preview of his appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation, a source told Page Six, including calling the whistleblower controversy “Kavanaugh on steroids!”

“We’re told that the South Carolina pol was on a JetBlue flight from Washington, DC, to Charleston and was chatting loudly with ‘Jared’ — presumably White House adviser Jared Kushner — before takeoff.”

Said the source: “He was like, ‘We need to know why Hunter Biden was receiving $50K’  for being on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma. He then said, ‘You can’t impeach someone on hearsay.’ He was laying out his story for Sunday.”

But the eavesdropper said of the conversation: “It clearly was not classified info. He was literally yelling this shit. He also said, ‘Don’t release anything until Sunday.’”

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