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\n In December 2015, when Donald Trump was still a long-shot candidate in the GOP\u2019s sprawling primary field, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham offered a brazen assessment of the political outsider.\n <\/p>

Read more Inside Trump\u2019s scramble to get White South Africans to the US as refugees<\/a><\/p>\n

\n \u201cYou know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell,\u201d Graham, who was also among the dozen Republicans running for the 2016 presidential nomination, declared on CNN. Then, he pilloried Trump\u2019s proposed ban on all Muslims from entering the country: \u201cHe\u2019s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n It was the unlikely beginning of what would become one of Washington\u2019s key political relationships. The Graham-Trump alliance \u2014 which at first flummoxed many in both men\u2019s inner circles \u2014 steered two terms of presidential foreign policy across multiple continents, and the GOP\u2019s agenda on Capitol Hill.\n <\/p>\n

\n Graham, the ultimate Washington power player, had spent years dealmaking with Democrats, including President Barack Obama. In his 30-plus years in politics, he refused to ascribe to party-line ideology, which he made clear with his frequent attempts to fix the US immigration system, or his disgust of the tea party movement.\n <\/p>\n

\n Then came Trump \u2014 and his stunning 2016 win. Within months, Graham had transfigured himself from Trump\u2019s most prominent primary foe into one of his most critical partners \u2014 his closest ally in Congress, a fierce TV surrogate and frequent golf partner.\n <\/p>\n

\n Beginning with a March 2017 lunch that brokered peace between the two men, Graham persistently worked his way into Trump\u2019s inner circle through frequent phone calls and golf outings. (Graham joked afterward that the meeting went so well that he gave the president his \u201cnew cell phone number,\u201d after Trump gave out the senator\u2019s number at a campaign rally.)\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cLindsey used to be a great enemy of mine, and now he\u2019s a great friend of mine,\u201d Trump marveled during one meeting with Senate Republicans in 2018. \u201cI really like Lindsey. Can you believe that?\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In response to Graham\u2019s unexpected death over the weekend, Trump called him \u201cone of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n For Trump\u2019s second term, Graham put himself at the center of the president\u2019s biggest ambitions, including the Iran war and a massive modernization of the Pentagon. He would have been a critical voice in multiple looming issues on the Hill \u2014 such as a bipartisan push for Russian sanctions, a deal on which Graham had announced just 48 hours before his death, and the confirmation of Trump\u2019s new attorney general pick.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe was one of those guys, just like Marco [Rubio], just like Jeb Bush, who didn\u2019t understand the Trump phenomenon,\u201d one longtime Trump adviser said of Graham\u2019s initial resistance to Trump\u2019s rise within the GOP. \u201cBut eventually Lindsey Graham figured it out. He saw that Donald Trump was where all the energy and the passion was in the Republican Party.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Graham over the last decade morphed into one of Trump\u2019s most trusted counselors on high-stakes geopolitical matters, the adviser said, earning the president\u2019s confidence even as they often disagreed on key strategic issues, including the extent of US support for Ukraine and the White House\u2019s efforts to negotiate an end to the Iran war.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe looked at Lindsey as one of his foreign policy experts,\u201d the adviser said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t always agree with him, but I think he respected him.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Unlike some other MAGA loyalists in Congress, Graham did not abandon his own strongly held beliefs when he linked political forces with Trump; instead, he picked his battles and threw his weight around with the president when necessary.\n <\/p>\n

\n He did not support eliminating the filibuster (though Trump told CNN after Graham\u2019s death that he was \u201ccoming aboard\u201d to the idea). He remained fiercely loyal to his longtime friend and mentor, the late Sen. John McCain, who was a frequent subject of Trump\u2019s ire. And he found ways to avoid directly criticizing the president on matters of disagreement, including the pardoning of Capitol rioters and Trump\u2019s inflammatory rhetoric about diplomatic allies.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Despite his sharp opposition to Trump\u2019s rise, Graham almost immediately began working to establish a relationship with his former rival following the 2016 election. The two golfed together frequently, with Graham eventually establishing himself as a key conduit between the wary Republican establishment and a novice president unaccustomed to the ways of Washington.\n <\/p>\n

\n The South Carolina senator later described his abrupt transformation as a pragmatic decision aimed at remaining relevant within a changing Republican Party, even as he faced criticism from other lawmakers for cozying up to a man he\u2019d once warned would destroy the GOP.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s evolved because he is the president of the United States. He beat me like a drum and I want to help him where I can,\u201d Graham said of his relationship with Trump in a 2018 CBS News interview. \u201cThe American people spoke, they rejected my analysis and he is now my president.\u201d\n <\/p>

Read more Graham\u2019s death highlights a power shift and a new question: What\u2019s coming next in Washington?<\/a><\/p>\n

\n On Sunday, Trump and others in his orbit specifically cited Graham\u2019s ardent defense of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as a pivotal moment in their relationship. During a 2018 congressional hearing focused on sexual assault allegations made against Kavanaugh, Graham berated Democrats on the panel, accusing them of trying to derail the nomination for political purposes.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis is the most unethical sham since I\u2019ve been in politics,\u201d he said at the time.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The speech helped galvanize GOP support for Kavanaugh, ultimately delivering Trump a crucial Supreme Court appointee after one of the Senate\u2019s most tense confirmation battles in history. For some of Graham\u2019s onetime Democratic allies in Congress \u2014 particularly those on the Judiciary Committee \u2014 it represented a point of no return.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think it was a top 10, maybe a top-five moment in the history of the Senate,\u201d Trump told CNN on Sunday. \u201cHe did it from the heart and it turned that whole thing around. He was really amazing.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Long one of the Senate\u2019s most prominent Iran hawks, Graham played a central role in convincing Trump to strike Iran earlier this year, setting off a monthslong war that the president is now struggling to bring to an end.\n <\/p>\n

\n The senator lobbied Trump for months to more aggressively confront Iran, portraying the nation as an increasingly dangerous threat to Israel and the rest of the region and openly calling for the White House to fulfill his yearslong goal of regime change.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI want to be clear when they write the history of these times: Expecting the ayatollah to change his ways would be like expecting Hitler to change his ways,\u201d Graham said in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum earlier this year. \u201cThe only answer now is to end this regime by standing behind the people.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Speaking weeks before the president ordered attacks on Iran \u2014 despite the misgivings of some of the president\u2019s senior aides \u2014 Graham described appealing to Trump\u2019s fixation on his presidential legacy to sway him toward war, portraying it as a Reaganesque opportunity to come to come to the aid of Iranian protesters and to alter the trajectory of the Middle East.\n <\/p>\n

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\n \u201cI think this is his place in history,\u201d Graham said. \u201cRonald Reagan said, \u2018Tear down this wall.\u2019 Not, \u2018Could you please lower it?\u2019 \u2026 You\u2019ve got people out in the streets thinking help is on the way. They believe in President Trump.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Graham was also seeking to influence Trump\u2019s involvement in another foreign conflict: Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine. Trump has been largely apathetic toward Ukraine since the 2022 invasion \u2014 at times, publicly deriding its leader, President Volodymyr Zelensky \u2014 while baffling allies by occasionally praising Russian leader Vladimir Putin.\n <\/p>\n

\n Graham, meanwhile, has been one of the few remaining GOP champions of US intervention on behalf of Ukraine, pushing to supply arms and other military aid. It was Graham\u2019s focus at last week\u2019s NATO summit in Turkey. And the South Carolinian had just returned from his 10th trip to Ukraine, where he met twice with Zelensky.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAt a private dinner at the Ambassador\u2019s residence, he was working every Senator on a strategy to end the war in Ukraine. Typical Lindsey,\u201d Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said of the recent NATO summit.\n <\/p>\n

\n Graham encouraged Trump to put his stamp on a variety of issues, pressing him to maintain pressure on Russia, endorsing his demands for US ownership of Greenland, and seeking fresh ways to advance the president\u2019s top domestic priority: a stalled federal elections overhaul bill that\u2019s driven a rift between the White House and Senate GOP leaders.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Once so fearful of a Trump presidency that he warned in 2016 that \u201cif we nominate Trump we will get destroyed\u2026\u2026.and we will deserve it,\u201d Graham spent the final stage of his political life working to expand and shape Trump\u2019s powers.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThey\u2019re concerned when they get up and when they go to bed,\u201d Graham said earlier this year, dismissing the rising anxieties over Trump being expressed by US allies. \u201cIf you\u2019re concerned about Trump, get a beer. See a therapist.\u201d\n <\/p>

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