Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tore into the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) legacy on Monday, saying that while he “was funny, fun-loving” he was also a “murderer” who demanded war.
“I disagreed wholeheartedly with many of his policies,” Greene said on progressive news show The Young Turks. “He was a neocon warmonger. He was a murderer. He wanted to wipe out and kill many innocent people in Iran, in Gaza, in Lebanon. He supported war more than anything.”
She told host Cenk Uygur that Graham, who died Saturday at the age of 71, “never wanted peace” and “the only time he may have been interested in peace was because this war is hurting the midterms” for President Donald Trump and the Republicans.
Watch Greene’s discussion with Uygur below:
Graham, who at one point was very critical of Trump, ultimately became a close ally, backing the president’s war in Iran.
Greene called Graham a “dedicated Zionist,” and bashed his foreign policy positions, claiming that he worked “diligently” to “send as much money as possible, weapons as possible for Israel.”
She expressed her agreement with some voices on the left who have criticized Graham in the wake of his death, including Uygur’s cohost Ana Kasparian, who simply wrote on X, “Good riddance.”
“I wholeheartedly agree with Ana,” Greene said. “And so just to be clear, the Lindsey Graham warmongering and, and blatant murder is — really, you can call him a murderer — and other politicians like him, they’re murderers because they demand it. They demand war. They demand that our tax dollars pay for war. They demand that American-made weapons be sent to kill people.”
Greene went on to tell Uygur it was Graham’s pro-war wing of the Republican party that she, along with other MAGA Republicans, had wanted to “end” by electing Trump.
“And boy, have we been wrong!” Greene said. “One of the great things that Lindsey Graham was very good at was buddying up with Donald Trump, and he was able to sway Donald Trump to his side, to his view, and that’s been one of the biggest betrayals, that, for people like me, we consider it a betrayal. We consider it one of the worst things that have happened, and it sickens me every single day. And it wasn’t supposed to be that way.”