Graham compared Trump, Netanyahu to FDR, Churchill
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- Lindsey Graham is shown in new documentary footage captured by filmmaker Alex Holder staunchly backing the war in Iran
- Graham went so far as to compare President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
- Holder, the filmmaker, captured the footage as part of a documentary project being released after Graham's death
- Graham is identified in the footage as the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), indicating the documentary is being released posthumously
Why it matters: The documentary preserves Graham's wartime rhetoric for the historical record, placing the current US-Israel military action against Iran alongside the WWII-era leadership of FDR and Churchill — a framing few sitting lawmakers have made so explicitly.
