‘FULL OF CRAP!’ Lindsey Graham Snaps at Kristen Welker in Heated Exchange Over Biden’s Threat to Withhold Arms from Israel

 

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and NBC’s Kristen Welker got in a heated exchange over President Joe Biden’s threat to suspend arms shipments to Israel.

In a fiery clash on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Welker pressed Graham on why it he’s objecting to Biden threatening to withhold arms from Israel when Ronald Reagan used the very same tactic.

“President Biden is not the first president to use arms shipments to try to influence Israeli policy,” Welker said. “As you know, former President Ronald Reagan on multiple occasions withheld weapons to impact Israel’s military actions. Did President Reagan show that using U.S. military aid as leverage can actually be an effective way to rein in and impact Israel’s policy?”

“When you’re telling the world you’re going to restrict weapons delivery to the Jewish state, who is fighting a threat throughout war for their survival, it emboldens Iran,” Graham said. “It emboldens Hamas. [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar is probably juiced up on the idea. There’s daylight between the United States and Israel. The hostage deal is harder. This is the worst decision in the history of the US. Israel relationship to deny weapons at a time the Jewish state could be destroyed.”

“Historians would say, why is it OK for Reagan to do it and not President Biden?” Welker said.

“Why is it OK for America to not to to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end their existential threat war?!” Graham said. “Why was it OK for us to do that? I thought it was OK? To Israel: Do whatever you have to do to survive as a Jewish state! Whatever you have to do!”

“Again, military officials say the technology has changed,” Welker said.

“These military officials that you’re talking about are full of crap!” Graham shot back.

Watch above, via NBC.

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