US senator and Trump ally Lindsey Graham dies aged 71 • FRANCE 24 English
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Avec une carrière de trois dernières années, peu embodied le Republican Party plus que Lindsey Graham. Le outspoken senator de South Carolina était un des plus reconnaissable figures en U.S. politique quand il a eu l'arrivée à l'âge de 71 ans.
Juste avant de l'âge, il était en Kiev, rencontrant le président de Vlodymyr Zelenskyy, en pressant le cas pour des sanctions en Russie. Je pense que le président Trump a winner, et il se voit Ukraine en camp de la guerre. Mais vous n'allez pas la guerre sur la battlefield.
Ma hope est de finir cette guerre avec la diplomatie. Et le plus de l'événage que nous avons au plus de l'avion, le plus de l'avion. Born dans le petit peu de la région de la centrale South Carolina, Graham trained à un lawyer avant de rejoindre la U.S.
Air Force en 1982. Il s'est servi à l'adresse de l'adresse et, de l'adresse de 1984 à 1988, à l'adresse de l'adresse de France, en Europe, based in Frankfurt, Germany. Upon returning home, Graham took up local work as an attorney before being elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1992.
Two years later, he won his bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a position he held until he joined the Senate in 2003.
Graham's politics were marked by pronounced hawkishness. As senator, he was a strong advocate for the war in Iraq. He repeatedly pushed for harsher measures against Iran and Russia and remained a staunch supporter of Israel.
The Twin Towers fell not because of a hurricane, but because radical Islamic terrorists killed 3,000 of us on a single day. And they would kill all of us if they could. If Iran ever got a nuclear weapon, they would use it.
We can never let that happen. So we're gonna help you. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he emerged as a fiery Trump critic from within the Republican establishment.
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed and we will deserve it. But after Trump entered the White House in 2017, he joined the president's ranks. At the time of his death, Graham remained a central figure in Washington, chairing the Senate Budget Committee and remaining one of the most influential voices pushing for an interventionist U.S. foreign policy.