Lindsey Graham has harshest criticism yet for Obama

Published June 17, 2016 2:05am ET



Hours after Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., clarified that he meant to say the Obama administration’s national security policies, not President Obama personally, were to blame for the Orlando attacks, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, stepped up to bat for his fellow hawkish colleague.

Unlike McCain, the South Carolina senator hit the president even harder during a Thursday interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren. Graham said as a result of Obama’s policies and his approach to fighting the Islamic State, at the conclusion of Obama’s second term, “ISIL will be in Iraq and Libya.”

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