You know he never shuts up. You know he has spent 25 years having "private" conversations with journalists in and out of the green room. My bet is he bullshits them just enough so that they think he doesn't mean the worst of it. Probably he claims that he stays close to Trump to restrain him, or some shit like that.
I don't really care about Lindsey Graham, but it is like that with all of the Beltway's favorite Republicans.