Contradictions at Graham’s Funeral — Hannity: He Wasn’t a Warmonger; Trump: He Loved War.

Whoever was in charge of South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral apparently didn’t get a look at the remarks from Israel First Fox News bloviator Sean Hannity and President Donald Trump before they delivered them.

The two contradicted each other in discussing Graham’s views on war. Hannity said he wasn’t a “warmonger,” while, in so many words, Trump said he was.

Hannity also used his stage at the Washington National Cathedral — the Episcopalian edifice where political celebrities who have shuffled off this mortal coil go to be eulogized under the stained glass window of rape accomplice Martin Luther King Jr. — to pound the drums for continued war against Iran.

That aside, Trump was right, as Graham’s long record of pushing for more war right up until he breathed his last well shows.

What They Said

Hannity, who has never and will never fight in the wars he advocates, claimed Graham was residing in a “heavenly … Mar-a-Lago,” but that bit of palpable nonsense is typical of these religio-political rites.

“Lindsey had moral clarity” and “understood right from wrong, good from evil,” Hannity said:

And he knew, as President Trump knows — as Israel knows, as I know — there can be no path to peace until evil is defeated. Evil, in this case, embodied in a death cult, an ideology, the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. Thanks to the partnership of the president, the prime minister, and many other allies, I pray their days are number[ed], and I pray that Lindsey’s dream of a lasting peace becomes realized soon.

From there, Hannity recognized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He claimed the late Palmetto State lawmaker “would have been blown away” that Netanyahu showed up for his funeral.

“He loved you, he loved the state of Israel, he loved the people of Israel,” and “he was often unfairly characterized as a warmonger,” Hannity claimed:

I’ve heard that false criticism a lot. It’s not true. The truth was the opposite. Lindsey desperately wanted and talked to the president about a lasting peace in the Middle East. He wanted every region, every country in the region on that path to peace. That was Lindsey’s dream, if people would only listen to what he had been saying.

On the other hand, Trump told the truth. During his long career on Capitol Hill, Graham never stopped pushing for war:

He had unwavering faith in the righteousness of American power and prayer. He was extremely hawkish, I will tell you. He never saw a war that he didn’t like.

Only his true friends would understand that, but he wanted it for the good of our country. He felt in his bones that our destiny is to win, and that his job was to do everything he could to ensure our enemies would lose.

Graham’s Warmongering

Graham’s record is clear. He advocated using weapons of mass destruction against civilians and advocated the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin. And he did so until his aorta dissected and sent him the way of all flesh.

On May 12, 2024, on Meet the Press, hostess Kristen Welker asked why Israel needed “massive bombs that can potentially level an entire block.” 

Graham suggested hitting Iran with a nuclear weapon:

Here’s what I would say about fighting an enemy who wants to kill you and your family. Why did we drop two bombs — nuclear bombs — on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? To end a war that we couldn’t afford to lose. … So when we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor, fighting the Germans and the Japanese, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. That was the right decision. Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war they can’t afford to lose and work with them to minimize casualties.

He suggested likewise for Gaza. “Just flatten it,” he told a journalist:

We flattened Berlin. We flattened Tokyo. Were we wrong to drop an atomic bomb to end the Japanese reign of terror? … If I were Israel, I would have probably done it the same way. … We flattened Germany. We flattened Japan.

Graham wanted South Carolinians to send their sons and daughters to die in the Middle East on Israel’s behalf. 

“I just want to say, I feel good about the Republican Party. I feel good about where we’re going as a nation,” he told the Republican Jewish Coalition in November:

We’re killing all the right people, and we’re cutting your taxes. [Donald] Trump is my favorite president. We’ve run out of bombs, we didn’t run out of bombs in World War II.… We love Israel.

And before he left Ukraine on what would be his last visit, he advocated war against Russia.

Recently released documentary footage, as The New American reported, shows Graham laughing about the war against Iran.

“Look at what we’ve done here,” Graham cackled:

I almost cried. I mean, like, how long have we been pushing this?…

I talked to Trump this morning, he’s jacked. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done. He loves blowin’ stuff up.