MAGA insider and former Trump White House chief strategist on Monday said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) should be “arrested” if he doesn’t stop traveling overseas and “stirring it up” in Ukraine, as one of Kyiv’s strongest backers in Congress.
Bannon expressed his frustration over Ukraine’s stunning drone attack on Russia’s strategic bombing fleet, which destroyed 40 aircraft deep inside Russian territory, giving Ukrainian forces a potential morale boost.
Bannon said the White House should condemn the military strike and crack down on Graham’s diplomacy. The senator on Sunday applauded Ukraine’s resourcefulness in pulling off a successful attack.
“The White House has to condemn this immediately and pull all support and tell Lindsey Graham to come home or we are going to put you under arrest when you come home. You’re stirring it up,” Bannon said Monday on his podcast, “War Room.”
He accused Graham, who met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Friday, of working behind President Trump’s back.
“Lindsey Graham’s over there saying: ‘Hey, forget Trump. I got the House and the Senate. We’re going to pass it. You’re going to see something in a couple of days,’” Bannon said, referring to legislation Graham has sponsored to sanction Russia and countries that buy its products.
“He’s stirring it up over there,” he said of the South Carolina senator.
Graham on Sunday praised Ukraine as “ever-resourceful” in the aftermath of its drone attacks on Russia’s air force.
“The ever-resourceful Ukraine used creative drone warfare tactics to successfully attack Russian bombers and military assets used to kill Ukrainian citizens and destroy their country,” he posted on X.
Ukraine struck deeply into Russia, hitting targets in the regions of Irkutsk and Amur, thousands of miles from the Russian-Ukraine border. The country’s security services reportedly smuggled the drones into Russia on 18-wheelers, which were remotely opened near military bases.