Transcript of Trump in Terror over Lindsey Graham Death New

Donald Trump is panicking over Lindsey Graham's sudden death. Donald Trump was the last person to speak with Lindsey Graham minutes before Lindsey Graham died. Kash Patel over at the FBI says the FBI is putting lots of resources into assisting in connection with the death of Lindsey Graham. Here is what Donald Trump just said. He called in to meet the press and he said that he was the last person to speak with Lindsey Graham before Lindsey Graham died minutes before the death. Here, play this clip.

And just to make that point, I mean, authorities were called to his home responding to initial reports of a cardiac arrest. Again, his office saying a brief and sudden illness. Do you have any more details?

I would think it would be that because when I spoke to him, it could have been, you know, minutes before based on, you know, based on the fact that I heard about the call, whatever time that was. So it was shortly before. But it had to be something like that because he was— other than being tired, he was fine. And so it had to be something like that that would just be a quick end. And maybe that's not the worst way to go. You know, you know, he has some fine moments.

Then Donald Trump called into CNN. He spoke with Jake Tapper, and Jake Tapper's like, could we just also speak for a moment about the war with Iran? The United States has escalated Iran responded and targeted numerous American military bases and struck those bases yesterday. So are you back at war with Iran? Who controls the Strait of Hormuz? And then Donald Trump's like, out of respect for Lindsey, I can't talk about this at all. I really don't want to have any discussions about what's going on with the war, whether the Strait of Hormuz is closed. Watch what Donald Trump says here. Play this clip.

Yeah, obviously, um, was very supportive of the strikes against Iran. The US and Iran have been engaging back and forth in strikes over the last few days and overnight. Are we back at war, and who controls the Strait of Hormuz?

Well, I don't wanna— out of respect for Lindsey, I'm not talking about that. We hit them very hard last night, so I don't want to talk about it, but I will say we hit them very hard last night. We had a deal with them yesterday. They were giving up everything, and then all of a sudden, 2 hours after that, they hit a ship with a drone. And I said, these people, there's something wrong with them. But I'm talking about a man who had nothing wrong with him, and that's Lindsey Graham.

And to his credit, Jake Tapper continues to press Donald Trump and says, I understand that that's what you want to do, but the American people are very scared right now and are suffering right now and are very confused. And we need to know what the hell is going on with this never-ending war, with what you're doing with Netanyahu. What's going on here? So Iran has declared the The Strait of Hormuz is closed and all of the shipping data suggests it is indeed closed. Is that true? Donald Trump then goes, it's opened as far as I'm concerned. Don't talk about it. Remember Donald Trump during COVID If you don't test, you don't know there's cases. If you don't talk about it, let's just pretend the Strait of Hormuz is open. And as I'll just show you in a little bit, Donald Trump then had CENTCOM publish messages saying the Strait of Hormuz is open. But let's just listen to what he says here. Play this clip.

Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. Is that true, Mr. President?

It's open as far as we're concerned. Don't talk about it. Talk about the reason that you asked me to speak.

Okay. We appreciate your time, sir. Before I let you go, is there any other final word that you want the American people to know about Lindsey Graham? What was it about?

I think his finest moment was his defense of Brett Kavanaugh, who said terrific guy and was treated very, very unfairly by the Democrats. Very unfair. I've never seen anything like it. Maybe the worst I've ever seen anyone treated. That includes me. Well, maybe not me, but it includes just about everybody. He was treated so unfairly. And Lindsey, as you remember, had that moment. And, you know, I'll tell you, Jake, I think it was the top 10, maybe a top 5 moment in the history of the Senate. It was an incredible display. And he did it from the heart. He felt strongly about Brett and he did it from the heart and it turned that whole thing around. He was really amazing. That was it. That was one they should replay.

Well, I know you don't want to talk about any other issues out of respect for Lindsey Graham, but we would love to have you back sometime because I do have a lot of other questions for you.

So, yeah, we'll do that.

And then Donald Trump says to Jake Tapper, we want CNN to go a little bit more normal. Hey, Jake, can you go more normal. As you know, Donald Trump has his right-wing oligarchs who took over CBS. They're now acquiring CNN. And Tapper's like, well, I feel like we're normal right now, sir. I think we're on a normal path. And then just notice, this is a quality of Donald Trump. He's a keyboard warrior, and he'll talk a lot of trash and say horrible things on social media posts. But when Jake Tapper says, we are normal, sir, Donald Trump goes, you are, you are. And by the way, do you hear how sickly Donald Trump sounds? Donald Trump sounds deeply sick. And what's interesting was before Lindsey Graham passed, I mean, he's a— he was sick in the head, in my opinion, but he didn't sound sick. Lindsey Graham, unlike Trump, who sounds very sickly. Here's what Trump says here. Play this clip.

Thank you for calling in.

To have CNN go on a normal path, and we'll do that.

Well, I'm on a normal path right here, sir, and I appreciate your time. And thank you for calling in.

Okay. Thanks a lot.

So much. We'll be right back after this quick break.

And then Donald Trump's like, okay, this is the reason that I'm calling Jake. Let me explain to you what Lindsey Graham's death means to me and to this country. I think Lindsey Graham would have been there very strongly to help me eliminate the filibuster. Jake, a moving tribute by Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.

Bit of a different attitude, but we got along on it. Essentially, we agreed. And essentially, we agreed on almost everything. Where he was really becoming strong was the Save America Act. That was— he was really— and I think he was going to be there very, very strongly on the filibuster. He was against terminating the filibuster. And I think he was doing that because he said, we have a budget coming up and we have debt ceiling coming up, and the Democrats will— you know, they've— they're deranged in many ways, and they're not going to be able to do it. So he was He was coming aboard, I think, for the filibuster, terminating the filibuster. But before we did that, he was going to— he was a strong advocate for Save America. And that's what he called me about last night. I mean, I think of it, I spoke to him just— he had already landed. He was probably at his place. I don't know where he was, but I spoke to him. And then I got a call a few hours later saying— late in the evening, at 2 o'clock in the morning, actually. But they found out about it, I think, about 8 o'clock.

About his problem. But so it had to be something very quick because he was fine. Well, other than being tired, he was fine.

He obviously—

then when Donald Trump was on Meet the Press, he said regarding Lindsey Graham's death, this is a big blow to the Save America Act, Trump's voter suppression bill. This is a big blow to that. And so that's how Donald Trump will remember Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham would have helped Donald Trump more pass the Voter Suppression Act. Here, play this clip.

Anybody like him? He was so intent. I mean, he literally called me about the Save America Act. That's why he's, you know, that's where I heard— think of it. He's traveling for many, many hours. That's a long flight. That's a long trip. And he, you know, calls me about Save America Act. He thought we were going to get it passed.

Do you remember the very big—

Yeah, this is a big— this is a big blow to the Save America Act, let me tell you.

Do you remember, Mr. President, what was the last thing you said to him? What was the last thing he said to you?

I said, we'll see you soon. Come over anytime you want. He came into the White House a lot because I liked him. You can't do that with everybody, but he'd come in.

By the way.

And then Kristen Welker says, hey, Donald, Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is closed. CENTCOM says it's open. Which is it? Donald Trump goes, it's open. I don't want to talk about it. We thought we had a deal. Iran really wants a deal. It's open. Everything is going great here. Play this clip.

And you obviously launched a fresh round of strikes overnight. Iran said overnight the Strait of Hormuz is closed. CENTCOM came out this morning and said the Strait of Hormuz is open. Which is it, Mr. President? And don't worry, you're going to—

I don't want to talk about it because I want to honor the life of Lindsey Graham. So I don't want to talk about it. I told you that before the call. Yeah, it's open. We bombed the hell out of them last night. They're very, very evil and sick people. We had meetings with them for the last day, agreed to a deal yesterday, a perfect deal for us. No nuclear, no this, no that, no nothing. They gave up everything. And then after that, they left the room. And then within an hour, they launched a drone at a ship. I said, you people are sick. You're sick people. And so it's one of those things. I don't want to talk about it.

Finally, before I want to talk about—

I want to talk about one person today, Lindsey Graham.

As we should, Mr. President. Just finally, before I let you go, what—

Then state regime media Fox brought on Donald Trump's bud Benjamin Netanyahu. And Netanyahu says, let me tell you about Lindsey Graham. When Israel would get aid from Trump and the United States, Lindsey Graham would say, let me give you more American taxpayer dollars, Netanyahu. We want to give you more money, is what Lindsey would always say to me. And I said, Lindsey, you want to give me all of that money? We should take it away from the American people's healthcare and from helping Americans buy homes. And from helping the American people afford things to give it to Israel. Lindsey, thank you, Lindsey. We're so grateful. Here, play this clip.

Trump, sort of a 10-year MOU, Memorandum of Understanding, where America gives Israel much valued support. Now, I— when I did this, when I negotiated this, I said, okay, this is what we need. We don't need any more. He said, yes, you do. I said, Lindsey, we don't need any more.. And he would tell me, no, I'm going to go over your head to the Senate because I think you need more on missile defense or whatever.

Okay.

And I think once or twice he got his way.

And then Netanyahu says Lindsey was a patriot. That was what a real— giving money to Israel. That's what defines patriotism. Here, play this clip.

Appreciate you joining us.

Yes, Prime Minister, thank you for joining us. And actually, if I could just one last quick 10-second question.

If you had one word to remember your friend Lindsey Graham, what would it be?

Patriot. Big, big American patriot.

All right.

Well, now let's join in.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Let's bring in Alex Hogan.

Now, 6 days ago, Lindsey Graham was mocking his death. Of course, during the Ayatollah protest, Lindsey Graham was prominently featured as one of the targets of the Iranian— not protest, the mourners, rather, at the Ayatollah Khamenei Mace funeral, which also turned into a protest against the Trump regime. And just to remind you of some of the things that Lindsey Graham had been saying recently, he talked about blowing Iran off the map. Let's play it.

I've been saying for 6 months now, hit Iran. They have oil fields out in the open. They have the Revolutionary Guard headquarters you can see from space. Blow it off the map.

He said that his message to the ayatollah is Donald Trump is going to kill you. We're going to kill you, he said. Here, play this clip.

Donald J. Trump is not Barack Obama. He has your back. And to the ayatollahs, you need to understand, if you keep killing your people who are demanding a better life, Donald J. Trump is going to kill you. Change is coming to Iran. It'll be the biggest change in the history of the Mideast to get rid of this Nazi regime. To the people of Iran, help is on the way.

But even when you go back to 2003 with Lindsey Graham, you know, he was one of the when he was younger and a senator, you know, he would say he was one of the main people pushing, yeah, Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. Here, play this clip.

I believe that Saddam Hussein is beginning giving aid and comfort, training and assistance to al-Qaeda murderers, that he has weapons of mass destruction. He is lying when he says he doesn't, and he will never voluntarily disarm. 500 inspectors, 5,000 inspectors are not going to make him disarm. He is a danger to our country and the world. He has killed his own people, and you're not going to disarm arming, but diplomacy is going to take force.

Or how about Lindsey Graham back in January? Iran's days are numbered. They're numbered. And this is what he would always say. You know, your days are numbered.

This is— I hear— play this clip.

There are a lot of headlines out there that are, in my view, not accurate. President Trump's resolve is not the question. The question is, and when we do an operation like this, Should it be bigger or smaller? I'm in the camp of bigger. Time will tell. I'm hopeful and optimistic that the regime days are numbered.

And then Lindsey Graham also compared the United States dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and he goes That's what Israel should be doing in Gaza. That's what Israel is doing. Why wouldn't we support them in doing that? Here, play this clip.

So when we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor, fighting the Germans and the Japanese, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. That was the right decision. Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war they can't afford to lose and work with them to minimize casualties. So can I say this? Why is it okay for America to not— to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end their existential threat war? Why was it okay for us to do that? I thought it was okay. So Israel, do whatever you have to do to survive as a Jewish state.

Now let me show you what CENTCOM posted moments ago. They posted two things this morning. This is from CENTCOM. This is what CENTCOM, you know, US CENTCOM, right? They post, claim the Iranian commander for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recently said on state-owned media that no foreign vessels may through the Strait of Hormuz without being identified, tracked, and monitored by Iranian forces. CENTCOM goes, false. Then they go, fact. This is what CENTCOM says: Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. It remains an international waterway. US forces are positioned and prepared to keep it that way. Then CENTCOM posts: The Strait of Hormuz is open to all vessels seeking to lawfully transit the international waterway. U.S. forces are positioned and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available despite unwarranted Iranian aggression, harassment, threats, and arbitrary declaration. Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. Traffic is flowing. When you look at the marine traffic, when you look at the data of the tankers leaving the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM isn't just lying. They're lying so badly. The Strait of Hormuz is closed right now. Even after the MOU was entered into, at peak you were having 35 to 30 tankers leave the Strait of Hormuz, whereas before Trump did this catastrophic war with Netanyahu, there was 135 to 150 tankers each day.

Then that went down to 35 peak. Now maybe it's 1 or 2. And they're Chinese tankers or they're Iranian-aligned tankers. And when the US tries to push out tankers through its own route and not go by the Iran route, Iran strikes those ships. We saw what just went down in the past 12 hours, and of course for the past several months. And CENTCOM saying it's open, we know it's closed. And it's so humiliating that this is what CENTCOM has become, but it's also humiliating that not just state regime media, not just Fox and CBS and Newsmax and the usual suspects, but lots of media then regurgitates what CENTCOM says. So CENTCOM says it, so we must say what CENTCOM says. I mean, take a look right here. Ground News, uh, show aggregates all of these articles and they just report verbatim. Traffic is flowing in the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM says. A lot of coverage on the right wing. A lot of coverage. Center, even left-wing media is covering it all, which is why the Midas Touch Network's like, we need to change the way the media landscape is. That's why independent news is so important because you have all the media and yes, there is a right-wing slant here, but all of it's just regurgitating what CENTCOM's saying and not showing graphs and data and charts and explaining what just took place last night.

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It's—

and this is why we need the truth. I mean, you then have all these right-wing Trump MAGA puppet sycophants. They then go on today like Senator Jim Banks of Indiana, and he's like, gas prices are coming down. Things are looking great. Iran is ready to get to the negotiating table with us again. Once Iran realizes how much they need us the gas prices will go down. That's your— you're a United States senator and that's your assessment after all of this? Iran doesn't want to make a deal that gives up its leverage that it won in the war. The US lost the war. And by the way, in the past 12 hours, the US hit— was hit hard by Iran. US bases were struck hard by Iran. What just took place in the last 12 hours was actually a humiliation for the United States military. But here's what Jim Banks says. Play this clip.

Aware, Senator, and all this is politics, right? Is the midterms as the result of this conflict spiraling?

The average price of a gallon of gas today is $3.88 nationwide.

That is a lot better than $5, $6, but it is still a high enough number that it could cost your party the midterms.

Well, look, President Trump has brought gas prices down. Democrats for 4 years under Joe Biden fought to permanently increase the cost of a gallon of gas. And President Trump did— took immediate actions at the beginning of this second term to bring down gas prices. They have ticked up in the last week. But we know as soon as Iran can come to the table and understand that they have no other choice, but to do what it takes to sign an agreement with the United States of America that they will never have a nuclear weapon, that they can't control the strait, that they can no longer funnel money to terrorist proxy groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, that they can no longer get away with that, then gas prices will come back down to where we want them to be.

Then you have Mike Walls, the ambassador to the United Nations, who's like, oh, the Strait of Hormuz is clearly open.

Hahaha.

Of course it's open right now. It's not open right now at all. Here, play this clip.

The President Trump has hit back. He's hit back proportionally. But at the end, you know, at the end of the day, Iran is going to pay the price.

Yeah.

And the president is threatening consequences should the Strait of Hormuz not be open. There seems to be a struggle over the Strait of Hormuz becoming the number one flashpoint here. Is it open or not?

Oh, it's open, as Central Command has said. And most of the targets that we've hit the last several nights have been directly aimed at Iran's radar sensors, drones, and missile batteries right there on the strait to eliminate and degrade their ability to attack the global economy. So we're going to take that leverage off the table. Our great military and Pete Hegseth continue to do that. But at the same time, Let's not forget, we have more talks going on in Lebanon. We're taking that off the table, too. For the first time, perhaps ever, the Israeli government, the Lebanese government are working together to eliminate and disarm Iran's proxy, Hezbollah. We've completely flipped the script there. We're taking the leverage off the table in terms of the Straits of Hormuz. The negotiations are continuing on the nuclear program. And oh, by the way, Maria, Oil prices are the same as they were pre-war. Our Energy Department and Secretary Scott Bessant, by the way, is doing a phenomenal job. Just sanctioned the ayatollah's money man who's running a global luxury real estate empire around the world. We're turning the screws on the economy, and President Trump will ensure Iran never has a nuke.

This is the message from the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, which was set up by Iran. Dear applicants, due to recent illegal movements of U.S. military forces in the area, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is currently not possible. As soon as stability and calm are established, all applications will be reviewed and the necessary permits will be issued based on the schedule. The only way to obtain a traffic permit is through the PGSA. Sa.ir website. Follow our social media account on X to get the latest updates. Thank you for your patience and support. Iran's retaliation and attacks after the US attacks in Iran's southern soil. Here's what the IRGC targeted, and then there's been satellite images confirming the following: an MQ-9 drone hangar and command center at Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan, targeted, damaged. A fighter jet maintenance and repair hub center at the US Al Udeid base in Qatar, targeted, struck, damaged. The supply logistics and refueling platforms for US Navy aircraft in Duqm, Oman, targeted by Iran and damaged. US Patriot systems, ammunition depots, and radar sites at a US military base in Kuwait, hit with Iranian drones. Communication systems, radar sites, and other infrastructure at the US military base in Bahrain, also targeted and hit with visuals as well.

When you look at the Strait of Hormuz, we're seeing a China-managed oil tanker, Burg Star, transiting the Strait of Hormuz. That's basically the only ship that's leaving right now. We can see the data, um, Carl Quintanilla posted this graph right here, which shows Hormuz commercial cargo vessel crossings. This is before Trump and Netanyahu's catastrophic war. This is— you'll see as we get closer to kind of late June-ish after the MOU, you'll see a little bit of a spike, but not a lot of tankers leaving. And now that's going right back to where it was right after Trump and Netanyahu launched their catastrophic war. As you know that we noted yesterday as well, remember how we reported that the US sent their two supercarrier groups, the USS Abraham Lincoln and George H.W. Bush, pretty close to the Iranian coast? Well, if you looked at the satellite image today, those ships have actually moved back from where they were previously positioned. As they were getting close, they now move back. And I want to point this out as well— Iran has been publishing images this morning of an intercepted American Tomahawk cruise missile launched from a US destroyer in the Gulf of Oman toward Iran.

The missile was shot down by the Iranian air defenses in Khorramabad, Lorestan province yesterday. And I think this is significant and important because Trump says they don't have any air defense systems. So Iran has offensive capabilities, they have air defense systems, they have their navy, and If anything, they probably have built up more during the ceasefire period than they had before. Now they know the US tactics. They've studied them.

They—

Iran has strategies, unlike Donald Trump, who rants and raves like a lunatic and goes and thinks that he's the smartest person in the room and doesn't follow the intelligence from the CIA or anybody. He goes with his gut, which has bankrupted him his entire life. And and Iran has a plan and a strategy that they're executing on while the Trump regime, you know, is flailing around right now. Also, it should be noted that Netanyahu sees Trump flailing, and Netanyahu has, of course, continued to escalate in Gaza. The genocide in Gaza continues. More strikes, more innocent people being killed as well, and more people being killed in general. This is footage from the moment of an Israeli bombing in Gaza earlier Today, let's play it. Then Israeli fighter jets struck the al-Sayna area in western Gaza City. You can see right here. Also, the IDF has been carrying out pretty massive strikes in southern Lebanon outside of the so-called security zone, which is just a way that Israel claims it takes over territory but tries to act like it hasn't taken it over. But it does by calling Lebanon territory security zones. There were casualties reported there.

I'll share with you what Iranian media had to say about Lindsey Graham's passing. One well-known host on Iranian media said, "I congratulate the Iranian nation on warmongering anti-Iran U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham being sent to hell." Another Iranian TV anchor says, "Lindsey Graham, the anti-Iranian senator, has gone to hell." The news is so good that I want to read it to you once more. Lindsey Graham, the anti-Iranian senator, has gone to hell. That's what they're saying in Iran right now. Meanwhile, Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz, has been making his rounds on podcasts. And here's what he's had to say. I said that southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We would apply the Rafah model. We would destroy everything there. We would deal with them exactly the same way. That's what we did. The infrastructure has been destroyed. Homes in 24 villages along the border. Villages that had existed for hundreds of years that were used by Hezbollah as military outposts against Israel have been demolished. The army systematically flattened villages with bulldozers and explosives. 90% of the houses are gone in Lebanon, southern Lebanon. Between 15,000 and 20,000 homes have been destroyed. Anyway, thanks for watching, everybody.

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