WSJ exposes Lindsey Graham for 'coaching' foreign leader on lobbying Trump for war

Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has been exposed by the Wall Street Journal for "coaching" a foreign leader on how to influence Donald Trump.

The WSJ ahead of the weekend published a story called, "Lindsey Graham's Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran." In that piece, there is a nugget about the senator engaging in a campaign to help Netanyahu to persuade Trump to launch an Iran war.

"To help make the case on Iran, Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, meeting with members of the country's intelligence agency," the Journal reported Friday.

Graham is quoted in the article as saying, "They'll tell me things our own government won't tell me."

The report further states, "He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, coaching him on how to lobby the president for action. Netanyahu showed the president intelligence that persuaded Trump to go ahead, Graham said."

That line stood out to White House columnist Niall Stanage, who flagged it on X.

"Just so we’re all clear — a new WSJ story has a U.S. senator (Lindsey Graham) meeting a foreign intelligence agency and 'coaching' that foreign nation’s prime minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) on how to push Trump into bombing Iran," he stated Saturday.

Popular podcaster Mel also chimed in, "Graham plays toddler memory games with Trump and coaches Netanyahu on the things to say in order to get Trump do some more war."