Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) dismissed purported evidence of electoral fraud in the 2020 election presented by Rudy Giuliani, then personal attorney for ex-President Donald Trump , as suitable for third grade, according to a new book from Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

As Trump ramped up his lies about a stolen election and demanded the overturning of President Joe Biden s victory in early January, Graham, a Trump loyalist, asked to see evidence of a rigged vote, Woodward and Costa wrote in Peril. The book was released Tuesday.

Graham, who loudly defended Trumps claims , then chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee. He sent the alleged evidence to Lee Holmes, the committees lawyer. Holmes found the sloppiness, the overbearing tone of certainty, and the inconsistencies disqualifying, according to excerpts of the book released Monday by the Post . The memos, he determined, added up to nothing.

Graham told Trump on the phone this summer that hed fucked his presidency, said Woodward and Costa. Trump hung up on Graham, they reported.

Graham was a vocal critic of Trump before the 2016 election, calling him a kook and unfit for office and warning that if we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it. He then became one of his most devoted apologists, even promoting him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Following the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, Graham (who voted to certify President Joe Bidens victory) said on the Senate floor that hed had a hell of a journey with Trump, but enough is enough.

But hes since claimed the GOP cant grow or move forward without Trump, warned that the people who are trying to erase him are going to wind up getting erased and said hes trying to channel the magic within the former president.