Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) earned a lot of backlash over his decision not to back the bipartisan foreign aid bill in the Senate (which passed 70-29). But what did a poster of a tweet do to earn his ire?
Graham spent a portion of his time addressing the Senate yelling at a poster of a blown-up tweet by the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk. Why was he yelling at it? To tell the Polish Prime Minister how much he didn’t care about his opinion. The tweet from Turk read:
Dear Republican Senators of America. Ronald Reagan, who helped millions of us to win back our freedom and independence, must be turning in his grave today. Shame on you.
Here was Graham’s response, which was directed at the poster:
To the Prime Minister of Poland: I could care less what you think: to the Prime Minister of Poland: if Ronald Reagan were alive today, we wouldn’t have this broken border. To the Prime Minister of Poland: I want to help Ukraine. I want to help make a stronger NATO. But my country is on fire. We’ve had 7 million people come across a broken border. How would you feel if 7 million people came in illegally into Poland? Would you have this attitude? We’ve got to put Ukraine ahead of Poland? I am not going to put Ukraine, Israel, or anybody else ahead of America.
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