Megyn Kelly takes on ‘homicidal maniac’ Senator Lindsey Graham after his threats to five world regions in 24 hours
Megyn Kelly has rebuked South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham over his support for the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran, calling him “a homicidal maniac with a bloodlust that is insatiable.”
Speaking on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show Monday, the host picked over a Wall Street Journal report discussing the senator’s recent trips to Israel in which he is quoted as saying: “They’ll tell me things our own government won’t tell me.”
Graham, a long-time Iran hawk, claims in the story that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed President Donald Trump intelligence reports pertaining to Iran that finally convinced him to give the go-ahead to Operation Epic Fury in the early hours of February 28.
“We are 100 percent doing this because of Israel,” Kelly said in response.
“If you used a but-for cause, would we be doing this if Israel were not involved? The answer is no, we wouldn’t. We’ve heard that from Marco Rubio. Now we hear that from Lindsey Graham directly.
“Israel was the one pushing for this war. And Lindsey Graham helped, and so did some Fox News contributors, and so did many others who were Israel firsters like Mark Levin.”
Kelly returned to the WSJ story to recount its claim that Trump called Graham to personally thank him for his TV appearances in support of the conflict and that the senator “pitched Trump on bombing Iranian and Hezbollah elements inside Lebanon,” to which the president reportedly gave a non-committal answer.
She then quoted Graham as saying, “What I don’t understand is why more people don’t do it. Try to shape these events. This is a moment of world history here. Just jump in the deep end of the pool.”
Offering her own conclusions, Kelly did not hold back: “This guy is a homicidal maniac with a bloodlust that is insatiable. He wants us – he got us into the Iranian war, Lindsey Graham.
“Now he wants us to get involved in a Lebanese war, which Israel’s already starting or involved in, and he wants us to go into Cuba, from the sound of it, possibly. Is that a boots on the ground situation? I don’t know.
“But this guy should be nowhere near President Trump. He should not be allowed within 20 feet of the president’s orbit, and the president should make the decision to keep this guy the hell away from him or, at least in his own mind, shut down his influence. This is not a force for good in the United States of America, Lindsey Graham.”
Kelly kept up her attacks on the senator on X (Twitter), posting clips from his latest Fox interview with Sean Hannity, during which Graham arguably overstepped his brief by promising Saudi Arabia a “mutual defense agreement,” something he is not authorized to offer.
The senator also used the occasion to call Iran’s theocratic leadership “religious Nazis” and Democratic former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden “fools” for attempting to placate the regime rather than snuff out its nuclear ambitions.
Reacting to an excerpt of Graham declaring, “I’m with Israel, until my dying day,” she wrote: “Att’n South Carolinians with doubts about the Iran war: your U.S. Senator says explicitly ‘I’m not with you, I’m with Israel.’”
In response to Graham’s admonishment of Spain for refusing to let the U.S. use its airbases to attack Tehran, Kelly said, “When did Lindsay Graham become our president? In the past 24 hours he’s threatened Lebanon, Cuba, the Saudis, the wider Arab region and now – checks notes – Spain.”
She is not the only person on the right to have gone after the Republican over his cheerleading for the airstrikes.
On Sunday, former Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked the administration on X for refusing to rule out the prospect of drafting American citizens into a wider war in the Middle East.
In the course of a three-post diatribe, she said: “A bunch of psycho Republicans want to not only draft your sons but your daughters too!!!!!
“Send Lindsey Graham, Mark Levin, and Laura Loomer and ALL the murderous blood thirsty maniacs that support this America LAST WAR.”
Greene – increasingly pitching herself as the MAGA movement’s queen across the water since retiring from Congress in January after breaking with Trump – is just one of many members of the right opposed to new American intervention overseas.
Its “America First” purists would prefer the president to focus on domestic economic priorities and are angered by his failure to honor his pledge to stay out of “forever wars.”
