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Lindsey Graham questions who’s really ‘running the White House’ at Catsimatidis dinner

Feast time at Cats’ deli

Nonstop John Catsimatidis just did another dinner. This one for Lindsey Graham.

John probably catered the Last Supper.

South Carolina’s senator said: “Collusion exists in America . . . They’ll do anything to destroy Trump . . . A country requires people who know what they’re doing. Washington passes laws but doesn’t know what it’s doing. And social media has to stop.

“We exist with a confluence of people who just lie. Plus there’s now artificial intelligence. They’re bullying us. We have to beat their ass.”

His words not mine, although even I know what ‘ass’ means. He told us James Comey, former FBI director, even has a movie made about himself. “We have to keep the FBI out of the coming election. They’ve already been into two elections.”

Over something called rigatoni pomodoro Larry Kudlow ran the evening. Maybe 40 people. Then this senator’s Southern mouth said: “Trump scares the BLEEP out of people.” He used that same word over our Amish chicken second course.

Then: “How about those Hillary emails. All this bullBLEEP about Russia. What she did was illegal.”

Also: “I’m worried about taking back the House.” And: “Our way of handling China is complete horsebleep” (only he didn’t bleep the horsebleep). He also referred to our need to help Izrl. It never ever came out as Israel. Always Izrl . . .

An exact quote which I wrote down to report to you was — I quote him exactly, his exact words — “So who’s even running the White House? We know it ain’t him.”


Change of course for 2nd course

Over our second course, he said: “One guy who can fix this immigration system is Donald Trump. He has the best political capital since Ronald Reagan. He’s bad, but he’s really good. He can do things nobody else can do.”

Catsimatidis proposed housing migrants at Rikers Island during the dinner in Manhattan.
Catsimatidis proposed housing migrants at Rikers Island during the dinner in Manhattan. Helayne Seidman

Also: “Venezuela once the richest country in the world, they — like us — are now under attack. WE’RE under attack.” Then: “Biden? Nicest guy in the world but who he is today we don’t even know. He’s just now a bunch of — (again) — bullbleep.”

Catsimatidis said: “Thousands of Americans have been killed in the last three months. Our universities are under attack. Education system under attack. AM radio under attack. Fifty percent of our hotel rooms under attack. Listen, put migrants in Rikers. Abortion? Under attack. Women of color are now screwed. And so are we.”


No dessert?

We sat at one long banquet table. The restaurant, Cucina at 9 W. 57th. In between Catsimatidis plugged his book, “How Far Do You Want To Go: Lessons from a Common-sense Billionaire.” He said: “Read it and you can make a million bucks. Read it twice you can make 2 million.” I left 9 p.m. The evening’s probably still rambling on. As I left the senator said: “Good news is at least we have Hunter Biden, a man who has even more collusion than children.”

SO, Prince Empty and his p.r. user wife? A Manhattan car chase? Really? We’re so congested, such traffic, nobody gets crosstown unless they were born there. A follow car? Like only if you’re in Central Park and if it’s 2 a.m. May they schlep back to London where people will run AWAY from them. Or call Camilla, who went from crotch to queen and knows about survival.

Me-Me-Meghan only wants to get an award in New York, kids, only in New York.