Trump says Lindsey Graham urged him to cut a deal with Iran
President Donald Trump shared that the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) implored him to make a deal with Iran before he died earlier this month.
“He was very much a hawk, as you would say, on Iran and, over the last few weeks, I would say that he became, like, ‘If you can make a deal, it’s better than, better making a deal in this case than just destroying the rest of the country,’” Trump told Fox News’s Fox and Friends on Tuesday. “We’ve destroyed most of it, frankly. But he was, he was somebody that said, ‘It’s a good time to make a deal, nice time to make a deal.’”
But as an aside, Trump added that he “wouldn’t say necessarily [Graham] feels that way about Ukraine.”
“He’s very militant about [Ukraine],” he said.
Amid a break in military strikes between the United States and Iran since the collapse of the memorandum of understanding, with Trump attributing the break to his providing the two countries with the opportunity to make a deal, the president, however, remained adamant that the U.S. continued to be in “a very strong position right now.”
“If they don’t make a deal, the bridges are going to be gone, literally in less than a, I would say in two hours, most of the bridges, the major bridges, will all be gone, and the power plants in one day,” he said. “If I can avoid doing that, I’d like to do that. The hardest thing to build is a power plant. The longest thing to build is a bridge.”
Iran has disputed Trump’s insistence that the two countries have reengaged in negotiations.
Trump’s comments came less than an hour before the president was scheduled to sit down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before Graham’s funeral.
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Of Netanyahu, Trump said he was mindful of the political pressure he is under regarding the Iran war before Israeli elections in October, with the prime minister increasing his warnings concerning Iranian activity around Pickaxe Mountain and the nuclear facilities underneath it.
“I don’t need Bibi to tell me that,” he concluded. “Bibi is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved. I mean, I don’t necessarily … we have the finest, because of Space Force, we have the greatest cameras in the world focused on. We know exactly what’s going on.”
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