WANTED! Russia issues arrest warrant for Senator Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham has been put on notice by Russia after speaking openly about his support of Ukraine and calling for Putin's removal.

The Senator from South Carolina is wanted for his open support of Ukraine.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been put on notice by Russia after speaking openly throughout the invasion of Ukraine. The country has issued a warrant for his arrest, and there’s even a call for his assassination.

Graham has suggested that Vladimir Putin could only be removed by his own people and that the Russian people should act.

He’s also said that U.S. support of Ukraine is a good investment, and that “Russians are dying” as Ukrainians stand up in self-defense.

He has a response to Russia’s call for his arrest though.

He says he’ll submit himself to the international criminal court for trial, on one condition: the same Russian leaders seeking his arrest would have to do the same. Politico reports:

“The Investigative Committee, [Russia’s] top criminal investigation agency, has moved to open a criminal inquiry against Graham, and the Interior Ministry followed up by issuing a warrant for his arrest as indicated Monday by its official record of wanted criminal suspects.”

In true propagandist fashion, the video of Graham has been edited to more directly link the two comments, making it appear that the Senator’s support of Ukraine is a celebration of dead Russians, rather than of success in defense more broadly.

The warrant for arrest follows the call for Graham’s assassination, which was posted on Telegram by Dmitry Medvedev, the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, according to the Daily Beast.

Medvedev’s post was the usual cowardly vague threat, saying that Graham was an “old fool” and should “recall the sad fate” of Robert Kennedy and other U.S. politicians who were assassinated.

Margarita Simonyan, the head of RT, was less vague, saying that action “in response to these things” is necessary, or folks like Graham will “become increasingly more brazen,” and called for “the sons or grandchildren of [Soviet Lieutenant General Pavel] Sudoplatov…his pupils, or the descendants of his pupils” to emulate Sudoplatov’s lessons.

He’s known, among other things, for leading the operation that resulted in the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

Graham responded on Twitter, saying it brings him “intense joy” to know he’s drawn the ire of Putin’s regime, that he wears his arrest warrant as “a badge of honor,” and offering a trade deal.

“Finally, here’s an offer to my Russian ‘friends’ who want to arrest and try me for calling out the Putin regime as being war criminals: I will submit to jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court if you do.”

You can see his response below.

Screenshot via Lindsey Graham/Twitter]
Stephanie Bazzle

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