Hannity Declares Lindsey Graham Was ‘Opposite’ of a ‘Warmonger’ While Calling for Iran ‘Death Cult’ to Be Demolished

Fox News’ Sean Hannity declared late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was the “opposite” of the “warmonger” his critics described him as.

Hannity spoke at a funeral service for Graham on Tuesday at the Washington National Cathedral, where he called for a swift defeat of Iran’s regime while pushing back on Graham critics.

The Fox News host thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for traveling to the event and told him Graham “loved” him and Israel.

He said:

He loved you. He loved the state of Israel. He loved the people of Israel. Under your leadership, Israel has been one of America’s most consistent and loyal allies. He was never shy to say it [until] the day he passed. And just as President Trump has been Israel’s strongest friend in the history of the White House, you know, the two partners aligned together, Lindsey was that friend to Israel in the United States Senate. As long as I’ve known this man, Lindsey, he was often unfairly characterized as a warmonger. I have heard that false criticism a lot. It’s not true. The truth was the opposite. Lindsey desperately wanted and talked to the president about a lasting peace in the Middle East. He wanted every region, every country in the region on that path to peace. That was Lindsey’s dream.

Hannity went on to call for an end to Iran’s “death cult” and praised Graham for his “moral clarity.”

He said:

If people would only listen to what he had been saying. His greatest gift in life from my perspective was Lindsey had moral clarity. He understood right from wrong, good from evil. And he knew, as President [Donald] Trump knows, as Israel knows, as I know, there can be no path to peace until evil is defeated. Evil in this case embodied in a death cult, an ideology, the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. Thanks to the partnership of the president, the prime minister, and many other allies, I pray their days are numbered and I pray that Lindsey’s dream of a lasting peace becomes realized soon.

President Trump also spoke on Tuesday and claimed at one point that Graham “never saw a war he didn’t like.”

He said:

While he was always quick to laugh, no one ever doubted the gravity of his mission. Above all, Lindsey Graham believed in a strong America. He wanted a strong America. He had unwavering faith in the righteousness of American power and prayer. He was extremely hawkish — I’ll tell you, he never saw a war he didn’t like. Only his true friends would understand that, but he wanted it for the good of our country. He felt in his bones that our destiny is to win, and that his job was to do everything he could to ensure our enemies would lose.

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