Political Glance
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tore into the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) legacy on Monday, saying that while he “was funny, fun-loving” he was also a “murderer” who demanded war.
“I disagreed wholeheartedly with many of his policies,” Greene said on progressive news show The Young Turks. “He was a neocon warmonger. He was a murderer. He wanted to wipe out and kill many innocent people in Iran, in Gaza, in Lebanon. He supported war more than anything.”
She told host Cenk Uygur that Graham, who died Saturday at the age of 71, “never wanted peace” and “the only time he may have been interested in peace was because this war is hurting the midterms” for President Donald Trump and the Republicans.
Greene called Graham a “dedicated Zionist,” and bashed his foreign policy positions, claiming that he worked “diligently” to “send as much money as possible, weapons as possible for Israel.”
She expressed her agreement with some voices on the left who have criticized Graham in the wake of his death, including Uygur’s cohost Ana Kasparian, who simply wrote on X, “Good riddance.”
New York writer E. Jean Carroll is finally getting paid more than three years after a federal civil jury held President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her, allegations Trump continues to deny.
Donald Trump has approved a sharp reduction in the size of two national monuments in Utah held sacred by many Native Americans, in the latest move to open US public land to corporate developers and the oil and gas industry.
At the Nato summit just ended, Trump lashed out at other Nato members, saying he was “very disappointed with Nato” and asking: “Why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars, and they’re not there for us?” He reiterated his desire to take over Greenland, blasted European energy and immigration policies, insulted Spain, and worried allies by declaring that the fighting between Kyiv and Moscow “doesn’t affect us”.
