Robert Kennedy Jr. on Fox News: “The only genocide in Middle East is the one being committed against Jews and Christians. In 1948, there were a million Jews in Arab states. Today there are fewer than 15,000.”
He's 100% correct.
I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die?
Because I do.
My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.
You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression.
You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced.
You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them.
You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line.
You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one.
You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you.
I have.
And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.
At the end of a particularly thrilling and rollicking meeting in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham turned to the room and said: “I’ve never had this much fun in my life.”
I cannot describe to you how much joy President Trump’s leadership and friendship brought to Lindsey. Meetings with Graham at the White House were filled with camaraderie, kinship and uproarious laughter.
As heartbreaking as his sudden passing is, I hope it will bring some measure of comfort to those who cherished him to know just how much he was living his dream every day. Very rarely in life do you get to be exactly where you want to be, when you want to be there, with who you want to be with, doing precisely what you want to do — that was every moment for Lindsey.
When President Trump won in Nov 2024, Lindsey was exultant. Elated. And determined. He couldn’t wait to spearhead work, as the Budget Chairman, on the reconciliation bill that would cement President Trump’s most important campaign promises. I’ll never forget the senate lunch, when a couple Senators were a tad off the program, and Lindsey — in his inimitable way — made sure everyone was onside by the time we left. It was a glorious thing to witness. He knew how to move a room.
Lindsey was a senator’s senator. The job was everything to him. Truly did he believe in the splendor of the office and the noble lineage behind it, of which he was the worthy heir.
He was a senator in the mold of those who fashioned the institution, someone who still had the ability, in a heated exchange, to use rhetorical power to change the course of events.
Which is why we will never forget his legendary Kavanaugh moment. We rarely think that we are out of time with our friends, so while there is a lot more I wish I could have said to Lindsey, I am glad that more than once I told him what that moment meant to the whole nation and why he was the only Senator who could have done it with such utter perfection.
Most importantly, I had the chance to tell him on many occasions what his friendship meant to me and to us all. There was never once a time he didn’t answer a phone call and lend whatever assistance was required. It was never a question with Lindsey. He believed deeply in the code of friendship and loyalty.
The fact that Lindsey started out as a political opponent only to become one the President’s most steadfast and faithful supporters underscores that Lindsey believed emphatically in the voice of the people.
There is a lot more I would like to say. His passing, at a time when he had never been more dynamic, is as unexpected as it is shocking. In many respects, Lindsey was the last of a breed of American Senator whose like we may not yet see again for a long time.
He lived every minute in the arena, a political gladiator to the very last.
More than anything now, our thoughts are with his Sister, nieces and loved ones.
We pray that God will ease their sorrow and heal their pain.
Lindsey can never be replaced and will never be forgotten.
Godspeed, my friend.
It seems like a good time to remind you that if you're a young person who turned against Israel in the last five years, you were the successful target of a coordinated influence operation meant to turn you into a useful idiot for Islamo-Leftist causes.
When I speak to you about revolution, I am not speaking from a textbook. I am speaking about the revolution that stole Iran. I’m speaking about the revolution that forced my family to leave our home and everything my parents spent a lifetime building. I’m speaking about the revolution that turned one of the oldest civilizations in the world into a prison for women, a torture chamber for dissidents, and the leading state sponsor of terrorism.
Erdogan has repeatedly referred to Israel and Netanyahu as Nazis and the Third Reich. Not once has our government publicly commented let alone denounced him. His foreign minister talked about the annihilation of the Israeli people. Crickets from our government. And now we lavish them with the highest level military gifts in apparent contravention of Congressional restrictions.
And I told you Netanyahu would come under attack by our government for raising concerns, which he has done politely and appropriately. He’s in the way, you see, too busy and focused on protecting his country from 100 F-35s in Erdogan’s hands. Of course, many others have challenged all this, including Greece and Cyprus, and here at home.
You can all look up the long list of Erdogan provocations against Israel, Greece, and Cyprus, and his police-state oppression, and his very cozy relationship with Putin that undermines NATO.
@marklevinshow Section 1245 ("Limitation on Transfer of F-35 Aircraft to Turkey") of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 prohibits that transfer.
@KatiePavlich@guypbenson Section 1245 ("Limitation on Transfer of F-35 Aircraft to Turkey") of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 prohibits that transfer.
BREAKING NEWS! Erdogan was prepared to join forces with Iran against our country and Israel?
The president has mentioned several times that he talked Erdogan out of entering the war on the side of the Iranian regime -- meaning, he talked Erdogan out of going to war with us and Israel? I really think that this needs to be explained in detail and fully pursued. If a NATO country was going to join the enemy in our war against Iran, we need to know all about it. The president is rightly condemning the lack of support from NATO countries, but in the case of Turkey, it was prepared to fight us? Can you imagine Erdogan using our military equipment against us? Now this thug will have our F-35s? And we're praising the hell out of this guy like he's our best friend? We need to know a lot more about this.
The American identity is more than a citizenship—it is a shared commitment to the ideals of liberty, responsibility, and patriotism.
As we celebrate America's 250th anniversary, may we honor those who built this nation, defended its freedoms, and entrusted us with preserving them for future generations.