Dr. Jill Biden, the wife of presidential hopeful Joe Biden, said her family is no longer friends with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Jill Biden addressed the end of the family’s friendship with the South Carolina senator during a Monday morning interview on CNN’s New Day with John Berman. The anchor brought up Graham’s role in the impeachment process, in which Democrats have accused President Trump of improperly withholding security aid to Ukraine in order to pressure Kyiv to investigate possible corruption by the former vice president.
Berman said he thought Jill Biden considered Graham “as a friend,” but she corrected his statement to the past tense, indicating the relationship had soured.
Jill Biden added, “Well, you know, Lindsey — I don’t know what happened to Lindsey. And we used to be great friends and friends with John McCain. I mean, we traveled together with the Foreign Relations Committee. We’ve had dinner. You know. And now, he’s changed.”
The host then asked if she still considered him a friend, and Jill Biden answered, “You know, it’s hard when you — I don’t know — consider somebody a friend, and they’ve said so many things, so many negative things. And it’s — that’s been a little hurtful.”
Her comments come after Graham, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, pledged to investigate the Bidens’ ties to Ukraine.
“I don’t think it is wrong for us to look at the Biden connection to the Ukraine,” Graham told reporters last week.
“So the president is frustrated, and I am frustrated that we live in a country where only one side gets looked at,” he added. “And I am telling you now that I am going to look at this if nobody else does. And that does not make me a Russian agent.”
Joe Biden overlapped with Graham in the Senate. He represented Delaware from 1973 until 2009, when he became vice president.
In a separate interview last week, the South Carolina senator said, “No one has taken the time to explain how Hunter Biden got rich in the Ukraine and his father didn’t know anything about it.”
