{"id":2636564,"date":"2026-07-28T10:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-lindsey-graham-urged-him-to-cut-a-deal-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:03:28","slug":"trump-says-lindsey-graham-urged-him-to-cut-a-deal-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-lindsey-graham-urged-him-to-cut-a-deal-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Lindsey Graham urged him to cut a deal with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-lindsey-graham-urged-him-to-cut-a-deal-with-iran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2636564&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump revealed that late Senator Lindsey Graham urged him to pursue a deal with Iran before his passing earlier this month. Trump described Graham as a hawk on Iran who later believed making a deal was better than further destruction. Trump stated that Iran has disputed ongoing negotiations, though he claims the U.S.remains in a strong position and emphasizes the urgency of preventing Iran from damaging critical infrastructure like bridges and power plants. Additionally, Trump mentioned that graham is very militant about Ukraine, though he noted Graham may have different views on Ukraine than on Iran.Trump also discussed preparations for upcoming meetings with Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, just before Graham&#8217;s funeral. He acknowledged Netanyahu&#8217;s concerns about Iranian activity and expressed confidence in U.S. intelligence capabilities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> shared that the late Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lindsey-graham\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"737\">Lindsey Graham<\/a> (R-SC) implored him to make a deal with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"100\">Iran<\/a> before he died earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was very much a hawk, as you would say, on Iran and, over the last few weeks, I would say that he became, like, \u2018If you can make a deal, it\u2019s better than, better making a deal in this case than just destroying the rest of the country,&#8217;\u201d Trump told Fox News\u2019s <em>Fox and Friends<\/em> on Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019ve destroyed most of it, frankly. But he was, he was somebody that said, \u2018It\u2019s a good time to make a deal, nice time to make a deal.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4665559\/trump-says-lindsey-graham-urged-iran-deal\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump says Lindsey Graham urged him to cut a deal with Iran<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4665521\/watch-live-trump-meets-netanyahu-white-house\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>WATCH LIVE: Trump meets with Netanyahu at White House<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4665520\/watch-live-trump-meets-zelensky-before-lindsey-graham-funeral\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>WATCH LIVE: Trump meets with Zelensky before Lindsey Graham\u2019s funeral<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as an aside, Trump added that he \u201cwouldn\u2019t say necessarily [Graham] feels that way about Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s very militant about [Ukraine],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid a break in military strikes between the United States and Iran since the collapse of the memorandum of understanding, with Trump attributing the break to his providing the two countries with the opportunity to make a deal, the president, however, remained adamant that the U.S. continued to be in \u201ca very strong position right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf they don\u2019t make a deal, the bridges are going to be gone, literally in less than a, I would say in two hours, most of the bridges, the major bridges, will all be gone, and the power plants in one day,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I can avoid doing that, I\u2019d like to do that. The hardest thing to build is a power plant. The longest thing to build is a bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran has disputed Trump\u2019s insistence that the two countries have reengaged in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s comments came less than an hour before the president was scheduled to sit down with Israeli Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"378\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> and Ukrainian President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"891\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> before Graham\u2019s funeral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4664223\/rahm-emanuel-trump-apologize-kaitlan-collins-dylan-mulvaney-quip\/\"><strong>RAHM EMANUEL CALLS ON TRUMP TO APOLOGIZE TO KAITLAN COLLINS FOR DYLAN MULVANEY QUIP<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of Netanyahu, Trump said he was mindful of the political pressure he is under regarding the Iran war before Israeli elections in October, with the prime minister increasing his warnings concerning Iranian activity around Pickaxe Mountain and the nuclear facilities underneath it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t need Bibi to tell me that,\u201d he concluded. \u201cBibi is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved. I mean, I don\u2019t necessarily \u2026 we have the finest, because of Space Force, we have the greatest cameras in the world focused on. We know exactly what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says Graham urged him to strike Iran deal before death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2636565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26005064150833.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[83322,3823,32283,32603,3634],"class_list":["post-2636564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-diplomatic-deal","tag-iran","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-political-news","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26005064150833.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636567,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636564\/revisions\/2636567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}