Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who was excoriated as “spineless” and “despicable” for blocking a Senate resolution to formally recognize the Armenian genocide, told Axios Sunday that he’d cast the vote at the behest of the White House
Sen. Lindsey Graham , who was excoriated as “spineless” and “despicable” for blocking a Senate resolution to formally recognize the Armenian genocide, told Axios Sunday that he’d cast the vote at the behest of the White House.
After his meeting with Erdoğan and Trump, Graham said a White House legislative affairs official had asked him to “please object” to the resolution — which sought to officially recognize as genocide the 1915 massacre and displacement of Armenians carried out by the Ottoman Empire, the precursor to the country of Turkey.
“He’s been working on this for years, but I did think with the president of Turkey in town that was probably more than the market would bear,” Graham said, stressing that he would “not … object next time” to the measure.
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