We’ve lost two mavericks this week, at least according to a Washington Post columnist.

Dana Milbank wrote a eulogy for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who he referred to as the late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain‘s sidekick, for essentially becoming too pro-Trump.

“Graham remains alive and well, but after serving for two decades as Robin to McCain’s Batman, Graham buried whatever remained of his own reputation for iconoclasm even before his partner’s funeral,” Milbank wrote in his column.

Milbank blasted Graham as an “apparatchik” for Donald Trump, pointing to a recent appearance on the president’s favorite program Fox & Friends and echoed his sentiments about corruption within the FBI and DOJ and invoked the alleged wrongdoings of Hillary Clinton.

The columnist then invoked Graham’s shifting support for Attorney General and former colleague Jeff Sessions.

In 2017, Graham declared he was “100% behind Jeff Sessions” and that if Trump fired the attorney general, there would be “holy hell to pay.” Now the South Carolina Republican says the relationship between Trump and Sessions is “unsustainable” and is “beyond repair.”

“No longer protected by McCain, he seems to have lost that famous McCain courage. It is difficult to avoid the impression that, since McCain’s illness, he has found a new patron. ‘I never did anything politically of consequence without John,’ Graham acknowledged this week. “I mean all of the big stuff, campaign finance, climate change, Iraq, you name it. I was by John’s side. I was his wingman.

Yet, now, he is serving as wingman to a president who takes the opposite view on each of those issues.”

Milbank also suspected that Graham is being “delicate” to Trump in order to be reelected in 2020.

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