{"id":282174,"date":"2024-02-21T09:15:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282174"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:36:26","slug":"russia-adds-republican-senator-lindsey-graham-to-terrorists-and-extremists-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282174","title":{"rendered":"Russia adds Republican senator Lindsey Graham to \u2018terrorists and extremists\u2019 list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Lindsey Graham is on record for having called for President Putin’s assassination<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Martin Pengelly \u2013 The Guardian Feb 20, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Republican senator Lindsey Graham, a key ally of Donald Trump, has been added to a list of \u201cterrorists and extremists\u201d kept by Russia\u2019s state financial monitoring agency.<\/p>\n

Tass, the state-run news agency, first reported the move by Rosfinmonitoring<\/a>, which allows authorities to freeze Russian bank accounts, though in Graham\u2019s case is likely to be chiefly symbolic.<\/p>\n

The agency\u2019s list includes more than 12,000 individuals and more than 400 companies, as well as domestic and foreign terrorist entities and Russian political opposition groups, according to the website opensanctions.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was reportedly added<\/a> to the list in October 2022, for supposedly tolerating \u201cRussophobia\u201d. Its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, and other Meta employees have been banned from Russia or added<\/a> to \u201cwanted\u201d lists.<\/p>\n

Graham, a South Carolina senator and foreign policy hawk who has long advocated arming Ukraine against Russian invaders, has also been subject to a Russian arrest warrant<\/a>, for making \u201cRussophobic statements\u201d during a visit to Kyiv.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to imagine a greater shame for a country than having such senators,\u201d Dmitry Peskov, the Russian government spokesperson, said at the time. Graham responded to the warrant by telling<\/a> Reuters: \u201cAs usual the Russia propaganda machine is hard at work. It has been a good investment by the United States to help liberate Ukraine from Russian war criminals.\u201d He said he would \u201cwear the arrest warrant issued by Putin\u2019s corrupt and immoral government as a badge of honour\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Graham is also a prominent ally of Donald Trump<\/a>, the former president and prospective Republican presidential nominee who is generally held to favour Russia and Putin.<\/p>\n

This month, Graham voted against a $95bn defense and foreign aid package that would significantly boost Kyiv. On Sunday, Graham told CBS<\/a> he backed a $66bn counter-proposal from House lawmakers of both parties, adding: \u201cI want to turn the aid package into a loan, that makes perfect sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

That echoed Trump, who has demanded aid to Kyiv should be turned into loans. \u201cI think that\u2019s a winning combination,\u201d Graham said. \u201cLet\u2019s make it a loan. I think that gets you President Trump on the aid part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamenting the killing of Alexei Navalny, the most prominent leader of opposition to Putin, who died in a Russian penal colony last week, Graham also said<\/a> Russia should be designated a state sponsor of terrorism.<\/p>\n

Republicans continue to seek to tie Ukraine aid to border and immigration reform, even though senators including Graham<\/a> dynamited their own border deal with Democrats after Trump expressed opposition.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Graham tweeted<\/a>: \u201cI understand what happens if Putin wins in Ukraine. However, many members of Congress do not seem to understand what is happening to America every single day at our southern border. Count me in for helping Ukraine. But, we must help ourselves first. It\u2019s time to get our broken border under control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Hill<\/a>, an unnamed Democratic senator bemoaned Graham\u2019s flexible loyalties, saying<\/a>: \u201cHe got sucked into the Trump orbit, and he is so zealously about his own self-preservation in South Carolina that he literally would push his mother in front of a train to get to where he needs to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate to say it because I actually like him.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican senator joins Mark Zuckerberg, and other Meta employees who have been banned from Russia or added to \u201cterrorist\u201d list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":262822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282178,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282174\/revisions\/282178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/262822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}