Fox Newsâ Tucker Carlson is suggesting Sen. Lindsey Grahamâs (R-S.C.) support for Ukraine is driven by some âemptinessâ in him.
During a segment of âTucker Carlson Tonightâ Thursday, the host played a clip of Graham talking about the situation in Ukraine.
âHow does this war end?â the senator asked. âWhen Russia breaks and they take Putin out. Anything short of that, the warâs gonna continue. To ask the Ukrainians to give Russia part of their country after all this death and destruction is not gonna happen.â
He continued, âTo signal a ceasefire, Russia will take the opportunity to rearm and come at them again. So, weâre in it to win it and the only way youâre gonna win it is to break the Russian military and have somebody in Russia take Putin out.â
Carlson reacted to the senatorâs comments, âItâs really hard to overstate how crazy this is.â
âAnd you donât want to play shrink and wonder about, you know, what emptiness at the core of Lindsey Grahamâs personal life causes him to identify so strongly with a country heâs not a citizen of? Somethingâs going on there,â he claimed.
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Carlson took aim at Grahamâs comments as he said, âThe effect is incredibly reckless and crazy. Take out Putin. Putinâs bad, kill him! Fine.â
âWhat happens then?â he asked. âWell, the worldâs largest land mass falls into ungovernable chaos. And that country has the worldâs largest nuclear arsenal. What happens to all those weapons ⊠in a country with a lot of people who hate us?â
His comments appear to be a veiled reference to the suggestion Graham is gay.
This is an idea that has been shared on other networks, such as MSNBC and ABC, and now it has made its way to Fox News.
Needless to say, lawmakers can support defending another country from a larger belligerent nation that decided to launch an unprovoked war on its neighbor, practically leveled towns, and killed civilians, without having an âemptinessâ caused by their lifestyle.
Being a politician and a public figure opens you and your decisions up to criticism â and even gross allegations.
And Grahamâs comments about breaking the Russian military, or people killing or deposing Russian President Vladimir Putin, probably are not the best for whatever diplomatic relations exist between the U.S. and Russia.
So they are fair game for criticism and people expressing concern about his vision for how the war in Ukraine should end.
But this is 2022 and the suggestion Graham is being manipulated because he is gay, to attack him, is childish and reminiscent of high school behavior.
It is just weird.
