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Lindsey Graham's Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran [View all]
As Lindsey Graham tried to sell Donald Trump on bombing Iran, he liked to play a little word-association game with the president.
“I say Franklin Roosevelt, what do you say?” the Republican senator from South Carolina asked. The correct answer: “You have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
As he ticked through memorable presidential phrases, Graham asked Trump what his phrase would be. Trump said he didn’t know, Graham recalled. “Keep protesting, help is on the way,” Graham suggested, referring to Trump’s social-media post in January urging Iranians to confront their government.
Few people lobbied Trump to undertake the riskiest gambit of his presidency as effectively as the hawkish and persistent Graham, who over a decade has held a sometimes close, sometimes tumultuous relationship with Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lindsey-graham-trump-iran-fa5f54f0
“I say Franklin Roosevelt, what do you say?” the Republican senator from South Carolina asked. The correct answer: “You have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
As he ticked through memorable presidential phrases, Graham asked Trump what his phrase would be. Trump said he didn’t know, Graham recalled. “Keep protesting, help is on the way,” Graham suggested, referring to Trump’s social-media post in January urging Iranians to confront their government.
Few people lobbied Trump to undertake the riskiest gambit of his presidency as effectively as the hawkish and persistent Graham, who over a decade has held a sometimes close, sometimes tumultuous relationship with Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lindsey-graham-trump-iran-fa5f54f0
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
— David S. Bernstein (@dbernstein.bsky.social) 2026-03-07T16:25:12.342Z
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