Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar now claims she wasn’t referring to an unfounded whispering campaign about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s private life when she suggested President Trump’s onetime foe is being blackmailed into supporting him.

Indeed, she now says that only homophobes would think that’s what she meant.

But the Minnesota Democrat sure wasn’t long on details when first making the wink-wink accusation on Twitter: “They got to him, he is compromised.”

That was not long after MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle suggested, “Somebody knows something pretty extreme about Lindsey Graham,” adding: “We’re gonna leave it there” — inviting viewers to mull that over in their minds.

Even if Omar is telling the truth about what she meant — and it took her long enough to come up with weak other suggestions, like Graham’s “funding” — the accusation of blackmail is still pretty despicable.

But entirely predictable: People like Omar and her fellow lefties are so ideologically rigid and unwilling to consider other points of view that their only possible explanation is always some deep, dark conspiracy.

There are lots of reasons why the South Carolina senator is no longer the angry Trump foe he was during the 2016 campaign. (Then, too, he’s been a particularly harsh critic of the president’s announced Syria withdrawal.)

One reason is pure politics: Graham is up for re-election in 2020 in a state where Trump polls at 83 percent. And recent events show that no seat in Congress is guaranteed safe anymore.

More likely, though, Graham’s telling the truth when he says Americans “rejected my analysis, and he is now my president.”

That’s an honorable attitude that people like Ilhan Omar and the MSNBC crowd will never comprehend. All that’s left for them is deranged conspiracy theories.