Lindsey Graham suggested that Trump have N.K. leader Kim Jong Un assassinated
In September 2017, just days after President Donald Trump dubbed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “little rocket man,” the president assembled his national security team at the White House to discuss U.S. policy toward the hermit kingdom.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) attended and suggested that Trump encourage the Chinese government to assassinate Kim and replace him with a North Korean general whom “they control.” The suggestion, recounted in veteran reporter Bob Woodward’s new book FEAR, would have been a dramatic course of action during a highly tense exchange of words with a hostile foreign power. Trump obviously never acted on the advice ...
Graham’s spokesman Kevin Bishop declined to comment ... but acknowledged that Graham has sought to encourage Trump to adopt a more hawkish foreign policy, occasionally in contrast to some of the president’s senior military and foreign-policy aides.
The president assured the senator that he was also open to starting a war with North Korea. “There is a military option: to destroy North Korea’s nuclear program and North Korea itself… If thousands die, they’re going to die over there. They’re not going to die over here—and [Trump has] told me that to my face,” Graham said.
... a senior GOP congressional aide: “We would be at war with half the world if Lindsey had it his way.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lindsey-grahams-under-the-radar-push-to-turn-trump-into-a-defense-hawk?ref=home
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), second from right, with pistol strapped around his leg
during a visit to Parwan, Afghanistan on July 7, 2013.
Graham was a colonel in the Air Force Reserve.
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