{"id":370207,"date":"2026-01-14T23:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370207\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:06:20","slug":"maga-star-cornered-in-court-on-trumps-golf-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370207\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Star Cornered in Court on Trump\u2019s Golf Cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Lindsey Graham added more credibility to the claims that Donald Trump cheats at golf, according to secret testimony he gave in the Georgia election interference case.<\/p>\n

Graham, who was questioned by prosecutors in 2022 about Trump\u2019s refusal to concede the 2020 election, said, \u201cIf you told him Martians came and stole votes, he\u2019d be inclined to believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TrumpTrump has long been accused of cheating at the game. Mike Stobe\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

When prosecutors then asked the senator, who is often Trump\u2019s golfing partner, about the president\u2019s unsportsmanlike golfing habits, Graham admitted that not everything was on the level.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people say you may outdrive him, but you\u2019re not going to outdrive his caddy,\u201d he said, The New York Times reported<\/a>. \u201cIt is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA Georgia grand jury recommended Graham for indictment, but he wasn’t charged. The Washington Post\/The Washington Post via Getty Im <\/p>\n

Last summer, Trump, 79, was caught on video more than once appearing to cheat with the help of his caddies\u2014first in Scotland<\/a> in July, then in New Jersey<\/a> the following month. In one clip at his overseas course, Trump is shown in his cart following two men up the fairway when one drops a ball for him to play.<\/p>\n

Those clips spurred experts to question Trump\u2019s frequent boasts of winning golf tournaments.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can clearly step up to a ball and strike it, but when it comes to the short game, he looks like he\u2019s going to be found out sooner or later,\u201d coach Craig Normansell told the Daily Beast. \u201cIt certainly doesn\u2019t look like the level of someone who\u2019s won 18 club championships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump certainly appears to be playing enough to prevent any rust. By the end of 2025, he had spent<\/a> 88 days\u2014one quarter of the year\u2014at a golf course, according to the Trump Golf Tracker<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"TrumpTrump golfed 88 times in 2025, according to the Trump Golf Tracker. Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about what Graham told prosecutors.<\/p>\n

The more questions arise about Trump\u2019s golf game, the more he seems to brag. In a Thanksgiving phone call with troops, he claimed to have won 38 golf titles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Golf writer Rick Reilly, who wrote the Trump book Commander in Cheat, said the real number<\/a> was zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. Lindsey Graham added more credibility to the claims that Donald Trump cheats at golf, according to secret…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4954,5904,149,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-370207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-golf","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}