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Lindsey Olin Graham is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina, a seat he has held since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Graham served as chair of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 2019 to 2021. Wikipedia
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March 4, 2022, 9:46 PM +08
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Friday defended calling for Russians to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, saying it would be the quickest way to end the war in Ukraine.
In an interview on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” Graham said he hopes someone in Russia will understand that Putin is “destroying Russia and you need to take this guy out by any means possible.”
The comment came after he floated the suggestion in a Fox News interview Thursday night and again on Twitter.
“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?” Graham tweeted, referring to Julius Caesar’s assassin and the German officer who tried to kill Hitler. “The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country — and the world — a great service.”
“The only people who can fix this are the Russian people,” he wrote in a second tweet. “Easy to say, hard to do. Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-lindsey-graham-defends-calling-russians-assassinate-putin-rcna18703?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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Lindsey Graham says of Putin: Someone in Russia should ‘take this guy out.’
March 4, 2022, 10:54 a.m. ETMarch 4, 2022March 4, 2022
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, called on Thursday night for the assassination of President Vladimir V. Putin, saying in a television interview as Russian forces shelled a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that somebody in Russia should “step up to the plate” and “take this guy out.”
“Is there a Brutus in Russia?” Mr. Graham asked on Fox News. “Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.”
“The only people who can fix this are the Russian people,” Mr. Graham continued. “Easy to say, hard to do. Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty and live in darkness, you need to step up to the plate.”
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An aide to Mr. Graham noted that he had made similar comments on the conservative network Newsmax, stating that “he was OK with a coup to remove Putin as well.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/world/europe/lindsey-graham-putin-russia.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
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- On Thursday the Republican Senator invoked Julius Caesar-style assignation of the Russian President who is currently leading an invasion of Ukraine
- ‘Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?’ he tweeted
- ‘The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country — and the world — a great service,’ his tweet continued
- He doubled down on the comments Friday, saying an Eliot Ness or Wyatt Earp needs to take action
- ‘You need to take this guy out back any means possible,’ Graham said
- Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) pushed back on Graham’s tweet, calling it ‘an exceptionally bad idea,’ calling for global sanctions and a Russian energy boycott
- In a separate tweet Graham added that the responsibility of eliminating Putin laid solely in the hands of Russian citizens
- His tweets come after Europe’s largest nuclear plant was on fire in the early hours of Friday morning after coming under attack by Russian troops
- ‘These days, not everyone manages to maintain sobriety, I would even say sanity, and many lose their mind,’ responded Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov
- Remarks also prompted furious reaction from Russian ambassador to the US
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