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Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Olin Graham is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Graham has been a prominent figure in national politics, known for his work on issues such as national security, foreign policy, and judicial appointments. He has played a key role in various legislative efforts and has been an outspoken advocate for military support to Ukraine in recent years.

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Aug 28, 2025

To those who run Norway’s sovereign wealth fund: if you cannot do business with Caterpillar because Israel uses their products, maybe it’s time you’re made aware that doing business or visiting America is a privilege, not a right.

newrepublic.com
Aug 10, 2025

The goal for me, and I think President Trump, is to end it [the war] forever.

nypost.com
Aug 10, 2025

I want to be honest with you. Ukraine’s not going to evict every Russian, and Russia’s not going to keep [everything]. So there will be some land swaps at the end.

nypost.com
Aug 10, 2025

Think about East Berlin and West Berlin as the way a conflict can be settled, at least for a period of time.

nypost.com
Aug 10, 2025

I have every confidence in the world that the President is going to go to meet Putin from a position of strength, that he’s going to look out for Europe and Ukrainian needs to end this war honorably.

nypost.com
Aug 10, 2025

We want to end this with the sovereign, independent, self-governing Ukraine, and a situation where Putin cannot do this the third time without being crushed.

nypost.com
Aug 10, 2025

I am here to tell you that President Trump will end this war in a way to prevent a third invasion and not to entice China to take Taiwan.

nypost.com
Aug 10, 2025

You can’t end a war without talking. I do hope that Zelenskyy can be part of the process. I’ll leave that up to the White House.

nbcnews.com
Aug 10, 2025

I want to be honest with you, Ukraine is not going to evict every Russian, and Russia is not going to Kyiv, so there will be some land swaps at the end.

nbcnews.com
Jul 27, 2025

At the end of the day, I’m not calling for prosecution against President Obama for treason, but I am calling for an investigation.

nbcnews.com
Jul 27, 2025

The best way to handle this is if there is evidence of a crime being committed, or suspected evidence of a crime being committed, create a special counsel to look at it.

nbcnews.com
Jul 27, 2025

If I were Israel, I’d make that offer to Hamas fighters: ‘You can leave safely. We want our hostages back.’

nbcnews.com
Jul 27, 2025

I think President Trump has come to believe, and I certainly have come to believe, there’s no way you’re going to negotiate an end of this war with Hamas.

nbcnews.com
Jul 27, 2025

You’re going to see, I think in the next days and weeks, a military effort to destroy Hamas, akin to what we did in Tokyo in Berlin to destroy the Nazis and the Japanese.

breitbart.com
Jul 27, 2025

You’re going to see a change in tactics, a full military effort by Israel to take Gaza down, like we did in Tokyo and Berlin.

breitbart.com
Jul 27, 2025

They’re going to do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin, take the place by force, then start over again, presenting a better future for the Palestinians.

breitbart.com
Jul 27, 2025

They are religious Nazis. They hold Israeli hostages.

breitbart.com
Jul 27, 2025

I think President Trump has come to believe and I certainly come to believe there’s no way you’re going to negotiate an end to this war with Hamas.

breitbart.com
Jul 27, 2025

I’m saying is that this is new evidence.

breitbart.com
Jul 27, 2025

The best way to handle this is if there are if there is evidence of a crime being committed or suspected, evidence of a crime being committed create a special counsel to look at it.

breitbart.com
Jul 27, 2025

Well, I think somebody needs to look at what we found.

breitbart.com
Jul 24, 2025

With every piece of information that gets released, it becomes more evident that the entire Russia collusion hoax was created by the Obama administration to subvert the will of the American people.

nypost.com
Jul 24, 2025

I urge Attorney General Bondi to appoint a special counsel to investigate the extent to which former President Obama, his staff and administration officials manipulated the U.S. national security apparatus for a political outcome.

nypost.com
Jul 24, 2025

Appointing an independent special counsel would do the country a tremendous service in this case.

nypost.com
Jul 23, 2025

Yes, I think this is something we may wind up having to do, because there is some there, there.

breitbart.com

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