00:00:00.000Senator Lindsey Graham died this weekend at 71 years old.
00:00:03.000The man spent his life fighting for the idea that American power is a force for good in the world and that you meet America's enemies with strength.
00:00:11.000And there were a lot of prominent people who were ecstatic that he was dead.
00:00:16.000The Iranian leadership, the Russian leadership, and of course the echo chamber of evil, Tucker Carlson and Anna Kasparian, Hassan Piker, and Nick Fuentes.
00:00:24.000I've been talking about the political horseshoe that's formed in American politics for quite a while between the America haters of the left and the America haters of the purported right.
00:00:32.000Well, that horseshoe has now become a wedding ring, and it is, in fact, a threat to the country.
00:00:54.000Apparently, it was sort of an aortic anomaly.
00:00:57.000A few hours later, by the way, my wife gave birth to our fifth child, a bouncing baby boy, which led to not a few internet memes about how Lindsey had actually been reincarnated in my son.
00:01:08.000If my kid grows up to be a multiple term senator who stands for American power in the world and never enriches himself off his office and has the hatred of all the people who hate America the most, He could do worse, like a lot worse, because here is the thing.
00:01:42.000So what you have here is a closed loop, an echo chamber where the same dozen people cycle through each other's shows saying the same poisonous things, trying to maximize everybody's exposure.
00:01:51.000Chank Weger has a show with Anna Kasparian, and it's Hassan Piker's uncle.
00:02:12.000If you are left to judge who loved the country more, the senator who spent 33 years in the United States military, spanning the active duty Air Force, South Carolina Air National Guard, and the Air Force Reserve, The senator who stood for American peace through strength and stood staunchly alongside our allies like Ukraine and Israel against Russia and Iran.
00:02:29.000The senator who never made a penny off his office.
00:02:32.000Unlike pseudo-socialists like, say, Congressman Rocana or $250 million.
00:02:37.000Or alternatively, the influencer class who thrilled to terrorists and dictators and openly celebrate that senator's death.
00:02:43.000I'll pick Senator Lindsey Graham every single time.
00:02:47.000If these are the people who celebrated Lindsey Graham's death the most, then hell, Lindsey Graham may be one of the best senators of all time.
00:02:53.000Again, Lindsey Graham stood for American strength.
00:02:56.000These jacked Stand for American weakness, surrender, and collapse.
00:03:00.000They think America is a nefarious force abroad, that America's allies are the problem, that terrorists are basically just freedom fighters against American and Western imperialism.
00:03:08.000They're propagandists for the people who would love to see America laid low.
00:03:34.000When you think America is imperialistic, when you think it's evil, when you think the world would be better off if we were governed by the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians, you know, all of the people who hate America the most, that our enemies are better than our allies and that those who stand for America deserve to die, you're the bad guy.
00:03:49.000I wish I were exaggerating here, but they all pretty much just said it out loud over the weekend.
00:03:54.000Well, all the worst people are very, very excited about Lindsey Graham's death.
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00:05:03.000So it began with the Iranian state media.
00:05:05.000Iranian state media, of course, were ecstatic at Lindsey Graham's death because Graham had been a longtime critic of the Islamic revolutionary regime in Iran.
00:05:14.000They put out a statement, quote, I would like to offer my congratulations to the great nation of Iran on Lindsey Graham reaching the depths of hell.
00:05:21.000I offer my congratulations to the great nation of Iran on the death of this warmongering and anti Iranian American senator.
00:05:28.000Alexander Dugan in Russia was also very, very excited about the death of Lindsey Graham.
00:05:33.000And of course, so were all of the worst people in America.
00:05:37.000Alexander Dugan, by the way, of course, he said that actually he tried to blame it on the Israelis.
00:05:41.000There were rumors over the weekend that maybe Lindsey Graham had been assassinated because of his sudden mode of death.
00:05:47.000There's no information to suggest that he was actually assassinated.
00:05:49.000His family says that he died of an aortic anomaly.
00:05:53.000But Alexander Dugan tried to blame it on wait for it, wait for it, Mossad.
00:06:20.000The DSA, way more upset with the death of Ayatollah Khomeini than they were with the death of Lindsey Graham.
00:06:25.000Very happy, many of them, about the death of Lindsey Graham.
00:06:28.000Here's Hassan Piker again, somebody the New York Times can't spend too much time glazing, praising the death of Lindsey Graham.0.77
00:06:37.000Lindsey Graham, in a long list of demonic entities, was exceptionally bloodthirsty.0.96
00:06:45.000A bloodthirsty, odious monster who loved war.0.70
00:06:48.000There was never a war that Lindsey Graham.0.92
00:06:52.000Did not fall in love with Mr. Ladybug himself.0.55
00:06:56.000And the ultimate irony, the ultimate irony of the situation is that he achieved him and his best friend, John McCain's dream of bombing Iran.
00:07:08.000A fierce defender of the genocide in Gaza, Lindsey Graham never met a baby in the third world.0.69
00:07:15.000He did not want to evaporate with American munitions.
00:07:21.000I mean, Hassan Piker, of course, is.0.99
00:07:23.000Perhaps the biggest scumbag in American public life.0.97
00:07:26.000He's saying all this, by the way, flanked by the flag of China behind him.0.99
00:07:36.000Here is Tucker Carlson saying exactly the same thing as Hassan Piker because, again, they believe the same things.1.00
00:07:43.000Killing is the point of Lindsey Graham's political career.
00:07:49.000Trying to convince the rest of us to get on board with killing when we won't, screaming at us and calling his names, and you're the hater because you're not on board with killing this or that person.0.99
00:07:59.000A staunch supporter of really one of the most brutal dictators, let's just say it out loud, in Europe in 80 years.0.96
00:08:06.000And that would be Zelensky, the unelected dictator of Ukraine, who's basically devoting half of his life to extinguishing Christianity in Ukraine.
00:08:16.000All of us are supposed to ignore that, but it's actually happening putting priests in jail, killing his political opponents, murdering critics.
00:08:25.000Lindsey Graham, of course, loves him because he's doing a lot of killing, killing the right people, as Lindsey put it.0.95
00:08:30.000Tucker Carlson suggested that Lindsey Graham was a murderer because Lindsey Graham had a psychosexual fetish with violence.0.77
00:08:36.000There's a Tucker Carlson, Hassan Piker, same person.
00:08:39.000Nick Fuentes put out a tweet saying good riddance after Lindsey Graham's death, which was an identical tweet to the tweet put out by Anna Kasparian, who has lost her ever loving mind over the course of the last couple of years.
00:08:51.000She also put out, again, same exact words, good riddance.
00:09:44.000Whether it is Fuentes going on with Tucker.
00:09:49.000Or whether it is Cenk going on with Tucker, whether it is Cenk going on with Piker, whether it is Anna going on with Cenk, whether it is Anna going on with Tucker, it's all the same thing over and over and over into forever.
00:10:03.000And I think that if Lindsey Graham's death exposes one thing, it is that all the people who oppose him think the same thing, and that is that America is the problem on planet Earth, and that's why they're happy he's dead, because he was an advocate for American power on planet Earth.
00:10:15.000Now, listen, I didn't always agree with Lindsey Graham and how.
00:10:18.000His policies manifested as sort of his ideology.
00:10:21.000So, for example, Lindsey Graham was very invested in the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
00:10:36.000Because again, Tucker Carlson is the person who clutches his pearls when the Iranians fire a missile at Qatar at the same time that he defends Iran.
00:10:45.000Anna Kasparian is a person who has openly called for the death of IDF troops.
00:10:52.000And also is very much in favor of the death of Lindsey Graham.
00:10:58.000And if you spend your days making sweet, sweet love to terrorist ideologies and being extremely nuanced about the death of the people who hate America the most, but you're absolutely crystal clear that when Lindsey Graham dies, it's a good thing, you're part of the problem.
00:11:15.000Of course, part of the problem on the mainstream left is this is now bled over into the mainstream left.
00:11:20.000You will find it no surprise that in the New York Times, there are contrasting headlines about Lindsey Graham.
00:11:25.000And say, Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian terror master.
00:11:29.000Their headline about Lindsey Graham, quote, Lindsey Graham had a complicated relationship with black voters.
00:11:35.000As opposed to, you know, Qasem Soleimani, the terror master, quote, Qasem Soleimani, master of Iran's intrigue, built a Shiite axis of power in the Middle East.
00:11:46.000Or say, the Washington Post throwback headline about al Baghdadi, the terrorist leader of ISIS.
00:11:52.000Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at the helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.
00:11:56.000You can always count our legacy media.
00:11:59.000To provide nuance for terrorists, but very little when it comes to Republican politicians who die.
00:12:07.000Steve Schmidt, the former Republican who has made the full heel turn, he put out an entire piece ripping into Lindsey Graham.
00:12:14.000Quote, Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention.1.00
00:13:08.000And she is the person who's going to be replacing him in the Senate.
00:13:11.000Graham joined the Air Force ROTC, and then he served as an Air Force JAG officer, and then he was in the South Carolina National Guard and Air Force Reserve, and he retired as a colonel after spending 33 years serving the country.
00:13:21.000He was in the U.S. House from 1995 to 2003, and then the U.S. Senate from 2003 until his death over the weekend, so 23 years.
00:13:30.000He was an extraordinarily powerful senator.
00:13:32.000He was chairing the Senate Budget Committee at the time of his death.
00:13:34.000He had previously chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:13:36.000He had served on the Appropriations, Armed Services, and Environment and Public Works Committee.
00:13:41.000And of course, he was most famous for being extremely national security oriented, making sure that the United States remained at the forefront of military development.
00:13:52.000He was the biggest defender of aid to Ukraine.
00:13:55.000He was very much in favor of sanctions on Russia and Iran, very pro Israel, very pro Saudi.
00:14:01.000He was very active in debates around NATO.0.72
00:14:03.000He thought it was important that America remain the global hegemon.
00:14:08.000He, in the 1990s, was very active in the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
00:14:12.000He was vocally critical of President Trump in 2016.
00:14:14.000And then later became a close partner with President Trump.
00:14:17.000He had some serious legislative accomplishments on issues ranging from law enforcement to the economy.
00:14:26.000He was very hawkish on border security.
00:14:30.000And of course, he was very much known as one of the most congenial members of the United States Senate.
00:14:36.000Already coming up, we'll get into everything about Lindsey Graham.
00:14:40.000Again, one of the great senators, truly one of the great senators.
00:14:43.000But you may have noticed that we had a really, really busy weekend.
00:14:45.000Like a busy weekend, meaning that my wife had a baby over the weekend, which is awesome.
00:14:48.000It also means that the sleep quotient is going down radically.
00:14:52.000Like, not a lot of sleep happening in our house.
00:14:53.000That means when we get on our mattress, we need to sleep.
00:17:16.000He is as good a man as God ever created.
00:17:19.000And we don't agree on much, but I think he's been dealt a really gut blow.
00:17:26.000I think he focuses on what he's got to do, not what he lost.
00:17:31.000His heart's been ripped out, but he's going to make sure that.
00:17:34.000The other members of his family's well taken care of, and he started talking about his grandkids.
00:17:39.000More worried about them than anything.
00:17:43.000Now, again, there were senators on the other side of the aisle who paid tribute to Lindsey Graham despite disagreeing with him routinely.
00:17:48.000Al Franken was one of those people who paid tribute to him on X.
00:17:51.000But this did not mean that Lindsey Graham was not a fighter.
00:17:54.000Most famously, he started to be called Lindsey Graham 2.0 because during the Trump era, Lindsey Graham went from being one of the more conciliatory members of Congress, very often part of John McCain's gang of eight and all this kind of thing, to one of the more contentious members of Congress fighting against the radical left.
00:18:09.000Here was Lindsey Graham going very hard, as you recall, at the nomination confirmation hearing for Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
00:18:17.000There have been a bunch of scurrilous attacks on Kavanaugh's character, a bunch of completely unevidenced allegations about Kavanaugh and sexual impropriety back when he was a teenager.
00:18:26.000And here was Lindsey Graham going extremely hard.
00:18:30.000One thing I can tell you you should be proud of, Ashley, you should be proud of this that you raised a daughter who had the good character to pray for Dr. Ford.
00:18:43.000To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics.
00:20:04.000But if you ever run for office as a Republican and you embrace this weird, we're going to beat your brains out.
00:20:15.000Graham was in Kyiv about 24 hours before his death, where he was talking about something significantly more serious.
00:20:20.000He's talking about bipartisan toughening of sanctions on Russia.
00:20:22.000And he was stalwart in favor of backing the Russians down in Ukraine.
00:20:27.000Here was Senator Graham about 24 hours before his untimely death.
00:20:31.000We've reached agreement with the White House on a version of the Russian sanctions bill that they will support.
00:20:40.000It means it's going to become law.0.70
00:20:43.000So when I get back to Washington, I'm going to go with Senator Blumenthal to the Republican and Democratic leader to see if we can find time to move this Russian sanctions package that would give tools to President Trump to help end this war.
00:21:00.000I think we've got the best chance since I've been coming here in the last five years to get Putin to the peace table.
00:21:09.000Again, it was because Graham died so suddenly that people had conspiracy theories about his death.
00:21:14.000In fact, Axios reported that just before Graham died, he had complained that he was feeling unwell.
00:21:21.000He had talked with President Trump earlier in the evening.
00:21:23.000Somebody urged him to seek medical attention, and he said that he would do so after he appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday.
00:22:43.000And again, Senator Cory Booker, who's on the left, obviously was complimentary of Senator Graham.0.94
00:22:50.000One of the White House negotiators during that first negotiation told me that Lindsey Graham was like an unguided missile.
00:22:58.000That God, he never knew which way he was going to go, whether he would come back and hit you.
00:23:03.000But when he was aligned, when he would be in the right place at the right time.man,he could get things done that other people couldn't and bring a lot of lightand new possibilities to the efforts.I am stunned at Lindsey Graham's death,but I pray that he is reunited with his friend,John McCain,that they both are experiencing God's love,grace,
00:23:25.000mercy, and forgiveness.my prayers are with his family and all those who loved and cherished him.I will missmyperhaps most unexpected friend in the Senateand someone with whom I got some good things. As I've mentioned a couple of times,
00:23:43.000we had a very busy week and very, very busy weekend. We had a baby. But here's the thing we knew our baby well before he was born. And guess what? Same baby inside. Now we keep saying this to each other. My wife and I kept turning to each other over the weekend. We went in like 1 a.m. She got induced. And by 5 25 or so, the baby was born. And we kept turning to each other and thinking to ourselves, you know, 24 hours ago, that baby was still inside your body. And now the baby is out here and we're holding that same baby before and after,
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00:25:04.000put out a series of tweets praising Senator Graham. At the end of a particularly thrilling and rollicking meeting in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham turned to the room and said, I've never had this much fun in my life. I cannot describe to you how much joy President Trump's leadership and friendship brought to Lindsey. Meetings with Graham at the White House were filled with camaraderie, kinship, and uproarious laughter. As heartbreaking as his sudden passing is, I hope it will bring some measure of comfort to those who cherished him to know just how much he was living his dream every day. Very rarely in life do you get to be exactly where you want to be, when you want to be there, with who you want to be with,
00:25:32.000doing precisely what you want to do. That was every moment for Lindsey. And I think that that is true. So the Senate seat in South Carolina will now be up for a special election. In the interim, the president recommended that Senator Graham's sister, Darlene,
00:25:45.000who again he cared for from the time that she was a child and his parents died early, will be replacing her. Darlene had this to say about her brother. I want to thank the governor for selecting me to serve the remainder of Lindsay's term. It is such an honor. Lindsay has always been there for me,
00:26:07.000and now I will be there for him. The South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster appointed Darlene to the open senatorial seat held by her brother. It is yet to be announced whether she's going to stand for election in the fall. I assume that she will. Lindsay took care of his little sister in years long departed. It's my honor to ask his little sister,
00:26:34.000Darlene Graham, to finish his work for him now. And by the way, Darlene, I don't know if I told you, but after we spoke on the phone in the wee hours of Sunday morning and you agreed to serve through tears earlier,
00:26:54.000I had wondered what you would say. And I was humbled by your quickness to see the duty that you had to serve. And I called the president afterwards, and he thought it was a great idea. And I'm sure that everyone here does as well. Senator Graham was one of the good ones. He will be missed. Obviously,
00:27:23.000Senator Graham's ideology was at core extraordinarily pro America, American exceptionalism. And that is why he believed that America should, in fact, be the great global power that it is. What an amazing video you just watched! Wasn't that amazing? Well, you know, if you think so, head on over to dailywire.comslash subscribe to watch the full show ad free or check out this crazy story here.