Flip-flop king Lindsey Graham seems to be at it once more. The South Carolina Senator gave an interview to Fox final evening during which he wouldn’t be supporting sending cash to Israel or Ukraine until the White Home makes use of extra money to safe the southern border of the US as he sees match.
Graham proudly shared the clip to his X profile. He included a caption saying, “I can’t vote for one dime for any nation, together with Israel, till we safe our personal border.”
I can’t vote for one dime for any nation, together with Israel, till we safe our personal border. pic.twitter.com/ZCfmU0L4Km
Till now, Graham has been one of the vital vocal Republican voices for supporting Ukraine with cash. He’s additionally been constant in pledging help for Israel, following the assaults it skilled by the hands of Hamas on October seventh.
In actual fact, solely two days in the past, Graham pinned a tweet to the highest of his timeline saying, “We should stand with Israel in each approach.”
Maybe he forgot he pinned it there. The distinction of Graham’s prime two tweets on the time of writing, simply a few days aside, is evident.
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Graham has usually been mocked for showing to alter his place. In Could 2016, Graham famously tweeted, “If we nominate Trump, we are going to get destroyed…….and we are going to deserve it.”
As soon as Donald Trump received the Republican Presidential nominee, Graham became his lapdog.
Graham’s newest about-face seems to have additionally been impressed by his devotion to Trump. He stated the present administration doesn’t know what it’s doing, each in relation to the border and coping with “dangerous guys.”
“If we had Donald Trump as President we’d safe the border tomorrow,” he advised Fox. “Folks would take heed to him in Mexico and different locations as a result of they’re afraid of him. If he have been President of america, these items with Iran would finish. The one factor that works with dangerous guys is to be robust.”
Graham’s newest feedback have shocked many on each the left and proper.
WTH? Hasn’t he visited and supported extra money to go to Ukraine than every other Senator?
“Lindsey Graham wants a powerful particular person to mentor him”
Graham’s Fox interview got here yesterday after he was amongst a number of Republicans who pressed Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas throughout a Senate Appropriations Committee listening to.
The White Home not too long ago requested for $14 billion in extra funding to assist lower the variety of migrants crossing the southern border. Graham and different Republicans are refusing to help the request until the White Home agrees to incorporate their most well-liked insurance policies, reminiscent of constructing extra border limitations.
Final month, former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger stated he’d discovered Graham’s pivot in the direction of Trumpism significantly stunning and disappointing. He advised throughout a public interview with The Atlantic that Graham may not have switched to Trump so arduous if he hadn’t misplaced his former pal, the late John McCain.
“I believe Lindsey Graham wants a powerful particular person to mentor him or carry him, and it was John McCain. And when John McCain handed, the subsequent man, the strongman that Lindsey Graham was drawn to, was Donald Trump.”
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