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Robert costa the of the washington post. their reporting about giuliani and graham excerpted today in the post. they write while graham publicly backed trump in private he said trump s arguments were, quote, suitable for third grade. the interesting thing about lindsey graham is he was one of president trump s top allies on capitol hill, one of the senators he was most close with, daily conversations over the phone and frequent visits to mar-a-lago. if he couldn t convince him there, wasn t going to be convincing anyone. woodward and costa write that trump s team also tried to convince another trump loyalist, mike lee of utah, that certain slates of electoral votes could be set aside by then vice president mike pence on january 6th but lee didn t buy that legal argument. after publicly backing trump s efforts graham and lee both in the end voted to sert fight election results, and on the night of january 6th in the wake of the attack on the capitol, graham voiced his frustratio ....