Darline Graham Defends Trump's War With Iran During Debate

Megan Varner/ Getty Images A MAGA senator desperate to hold onto her late brother’s seat has made a bizarre attempt to blame Democrats for Donald Trump’s war on Iran.

“Let’s not forget, again, how the war started,” Darline Graham, 62, who took over the deep red South Carolina seat after her brother Lindsey Graham’s sudden death in July, said during an election debate on Sunday.

“The Democrats let Iran get a nuclear weapon, almost,” Graham, now locked in a midterm battle with Democratic rival Annie Andrews, went on.

“They were very close to getting one.” The Democratic Party did not allow Iran to “almost” develop a nuclear weapon.

President Barack Obama negotiated a landmark deal with Tehran in 2015 that significantly restricted the Islamist regime’s ability to produce weapons-grade nuclear material.

President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from that arrangement in 2018, saying it was a “horrible, one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made.

It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace, and it never will.” Tehran had initially remained within the agreement’s limits, but began openly exceeding those restrictions the following year.

Since returning to office, the president has publicly rejected his own intelligence officials’ assessments that Iran has not been building a nuclear weapon.

He insisted last June that the country was “very close” to obtaining one, and launched a series of strikes against Iranian facilities just days later.

Trump claimed those attacks had “obliterated” the country’s nuclear capabilities.

He then contradicted U.S. intelligence assessments again in February by claiming that Tehran was rebuilding its nuclear program, as a justification for going to war with the regime.

Graham’s defense of the president’s military campaign, which he pledged would last a “few weeks” and is now in its eighth month, sparked instant ridicule online.

“That isn’t true and not even close to the reason the war started,” one person wrote on X.

“She is just as full of s-–t as her late brother.” “The lies are so blatant, so constant, and so detached from reality that you wonder what planet these people live on,” another added.