Hope he’ll be taken out: US Senator again calls for Vladimir Putin’s assassination
India Today
Asked if he stood by his earlier call for Vladimir Putin's assassination, US Senator Lindsey Graham doubled down on his position and called on Russians to “rise up and end this reign of terror”.
US Senator Lindsey Graham doubled down on his position that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be assassinated, and called on the people of Russia to “rise up and end this reign of terror”.
“I hope he will be taken out, one way or the other. I don't care how they take him out. I don't care if we send him to the Hague and try him. I just want him to go,” said Graham during a press conference as Russia’s war on Ukraine entered the third week.
To drive his point home, Lindsey Graham said Putin was a war criminal, and compared the Russian premier to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
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“Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate leader. He's a war criminal. I wish somebody had taken Hitler out in the [1930s],” he remarked.
The Republican leader clarified that he does not want US forces to “intervene” in Russia or Ukraine in order to assassinate Putin. Rather, he must be “dealt with” by the Russians themselves.
"I'm not asking to invade Russia to take them out. I'm not asking to send American ground forces into Ukraine to fight the Russian army. I am asking the Russian people to rise up and end this reign of terror for you and the world at large," said Graham.
