Lindsey Graham has always been lapdog faithful to former President Donald Trump, even when Trump has acted like an abusive owner. Indeed, Graham has grovelled even when Trump did such awful things as giving out the South Carolina senator’s personal cell phone number during a press conference and then telling folks to “try it” or sending hordes of angry people to attack the building he’s currently inhabiting, according to Queerty. No matter what Trump has done, Graham just returns to get kicked all over again.

Now, however, it looks like the GOP senator might finally, FINALLY, be having second thoughts about staying with his abusive owner, er I mean Trump. I’m basing that on his recent interview with The Post and Courier.

Graham said he recently talked with the ex-president and urged him to knock it off with the grievance politics as primary season gets underway.

“I told him to talk more about the future,” Graham said. “Grievances just give an opening to your opponents.”

Trump, however, is not a good listener and he marches to the sound of his own drum, no matter how loud and obnoxious that drum may be. He’s been the very definition of a sore loser, whining and complaining about the “rigged” 2020 election, yelling “Witch Hunt!” at every opportune moment, especially after his recent indictment by a Florida grand jury earlier this month, where he’s hollering about the aforementioned “witch hunt” and that the dastardly DOJ has been “weaponized” against him. Even though it isn’t and this is also one of his favorite complaints.

He was especially spitting fire in a Truth Social rant, firing off a series of ALL CAPS posts accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of planting evidence against him and imploring Congress to launch an official investigation into the matter.

Yeah, that’s Trump. Why talk normally when you can SCREAM?

“CONGRESS, PLEASE INVESTIGATE THE POLITICAL WITCH HUNTS AGAINST ME CURRENTLY BEING BROUGHT BY THE CORRUPT DOJ AND FBI, WHO ARE TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL,” he raged. “THIS CONTINUING SAGA IS RETRIBUTION AGAINST ME FOR WINNING AND, EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY TO THEM, ELECTION INTERFERENCE REGARDING THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. IT WILL BE THERE UPDATED FORM OF RIGGING OUR MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION. LOOK AT THE POLLS – THEY CAN’T BEAT ME (MAGA!) AT THE BALLOT BOX, THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN WIN IS TO CHEAT. STOP THEM NOW!”

As he spoke to The Post and Courier, Graham said he and Trump discussed his standing in South Carolina, where the primary starts early. Conveniently it’s also home to two, count ’em two of his primary challengers: Former Gov. Nikki Haley and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott.

Polls right now show Trump is well ahead of his competition, leading the state by over 50 percent, with Haley and Scott barely eking out four percent and three percent respectively.

“I told him I thought the indictment backlash would probably do more to help him than hurt him in South Carolina,” Graham told The Post and Courier.

How typical of Republican voters to act like “indictment backlash” is a good thing. Jeesh.

And even though current polling in South Carolina shows Trump hugely outperforming Haley and Scott, Ron DeSantis, considered his chief opponent for the GOP nomination, has slowly been gaining on him nationwide.

An Emerson College national poll released earlier this week noted that even though Trump still leads the Republican field, he’s dropped three points from an earlier poll conducted in April. DeSantis, however, has gained five points. A CNN survey released earlier this week shows his support among Republicans and right-leaning independents has dropped six points since May, while support for DeSantis has stayed the same.

“Trump has a commanding lead, but no, it’s not over, Graham said. “There are so many things that can happen.”

He had plenty of praise for DeSantis for his “heck of a record as governor.” Which, of course, includes persecuting LGBTQ+ people and families, banning books, getting into a ridiculous fight with Disney, and making certain to harm trans children.

“The biggest challenge for President Trump is to convince Republicans that he can win,” Graham explained. “The South Carolina primary is President Trump’s to lose.”

It’s probably a good idea not to take Graham’s comments too seriously. If Trump wins the nomination, he’ll almost certainly be brown-nosing him just as he has done since 2016. Should DeSantis win the primary, Graham will almost certainly switch alliances and brown-nose him instead.

But since Graham is giving this change some thought, it looks like Trump’s loyal lapdog is looking for a way out because he’s not as confident about the former president as he used to be.

Who knows? Maybe Graham will find his b*lls and hop the fence. It would come as a shock, but it could happen.