Meghan McCain Issues Dire Warning About Trump ‘Surrogate’
McCain has sounded off on one of her late father’s best friends.
Meghan McCain is sounding the alarm about one of President Donald Trump’s loudest acolytes.
The former View host turned podcaster pleaded with the Trump administration to stop deploying MAGA Sen. Lindsey Graham to sell the war against Iran to the American public, saying “he is scaring people.”
“I’ve known Lindsey Graham since I was a child. I am imploring anyone who will listen in the Trump administration to stop sending this man out as a surrogate,” McCain, the 41-year-old daughter of the late GOP stalwart John McCain, wrote in an X post Sunday.
McCain, whose father was famously best friends with Graham, had once likened Graham to an “uncle,” but she has since distanced herself from the Trump loyalist.
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“He is scaring people and doing damage to whatever message you’re trying to sell to the American public about the Iran war,” she added.
McCain penned her takedown in response to a clip from Graham’s appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, where the South Carolina senator, 70, ominously teased “hell” in the escalating war with Iran.
“You just wait to see what comes in the next two weeks,” Graham said.
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“The next two weeks meaning what?” Bartiromo inquired.
With a smirk, the senator declared vaguely, “We’re going to blow the hell out these people.”
Lindsey Graham has a close relationship with Donald Trump and had lobbied the president to go to war with Iran for months.
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He added in his signature Southern drawl, “This regime is in a death throe now. It is going to be on its knees, it’s going the fall, and when it falls, we’re going to have peace like no other time.”
Graham, who had lobbied Trump to go to war with Iran for months, argued that “you can’t do it by talking.”
He demanded, “These men and women in the military should make us all proud,” forcing the MAGA-friendly Fox host to point out, “They have already.”
On Saturday, Trump, 79, sparked bipartisan outrage after wearing a Trump merch baseball cap while attending the dignified transfer of the six U.S. service members who have been killed in his one-week-old war.
McCain, whose father was famously best friends with Graham, had once likened the senator to an “uncle”.
But she has since distanced herself from the Trump loyalist, telling him to “get a grip!” in April last year after he backed Trump to be the next pope.
The Daily Beast has reached out to Graham’s office and the White House for comment.
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