Or at least that is what the increasingly bogus news source The Independent would have you believe if you only read clickbaity headlines. The truth, which thankfully was actually contained in the article that they wrote, tells a completely different story to anyone who bothers to read that part.
The Independent's very name is misleading because they are about as politically "independent" as Rush Limbaugh is. They only ever tell one side of a story and when there isn't a story actually there, they will replace key words in a quote from someone.
Lindsey Graham has been outspoken about the need to replace Ruth Ginsburg as quickly as possible after her passing away a week ago. Democrat supporters are bemoaning this and whining to the hills and back despite the fact that appointing a justice that leans to their party's ideals is exactly what they would do if they were in power. They call it a travesty of justice and other such nonsense only because it isn't going to go their way, not because it actually is in any way, something that would be done any differently if the shoe was on the other food.
Graham has become the face of the movement to quickly replace Ginsburg with a conservative Justice, despite the fact that he is merely a mouthpiece for what every single conservative legislator in existence is thinking.
Now as far as The Independent's reporting by Matt Mathers is concerned, they take a quote for the headline and remove all context and even change the wording of what was actually said to suit a certain idea, they also choose a non flattering picture for their article and at the point, the devious "journalism" effect they were hoping for is complete.
The headline says "‘People hate my guts’: GOP senator Lindsey Graham bemoans rival’s surge in donations"
Inside the article, and also the sound byte that the statement is actually from, it is extremely clear that Lindsey Graham is referring to the people who donate to his opponent's campaign fund - not all people. You want to know how I know that he is referring to these donors specifically? Because in the actual statement he said "These donors".... He did not say "People." I suppose for the most part that donors are in fact people, but the Independent knows what they are doing here and their idea is to deceive, not report.
It might seem like a minor thing this intentional replacement of a particular word, but this is exactly what "fake news" is in this day and age: A deceptive headline with the actual information buried inside of an article that very few people are going to read anyway.
Matt Mathers' body of work at The Independent has only one tone and a very clear objective: Attack Trump and all other conservatives while attempting to paint liberals in the best light possible. He is not a reporter, he is, like so many of his contemporaries in the field at the moment, an activist.
Thankfully, I think most people are waking up to the fact that Mathers, and nearly every single other "journalist" out there at the moment can not be trusted. They are not reporting, they are distorting and this is the reason why Matt ends up in the same club that so many of the other journalists at The Independent already are members of. The club of....