In a recent radio interview, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Tuesday that he thinks former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) was wrong to criticize President Barack Obama’s motives for securing the nuclear deal with Iran, according to Buzzfeed.
“I don’t question President Obama’s motives. That’s where Mike has gone down the wrong road,” Graham said in the interview. “I like Mike Huckabee, but this is about the most sensitive subject matter I can imagine.”
Huckabee said that Obama’s deal with Iran will “take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven,” he said in an interview with Breitbart News.
“I am not accusing President Obama of marching the Jewish people to the ovens,” Graham said in the interview. “I’m accusing him of misjudging our adversary, the Iranian Ayatollah, and constructing a deal that will empower them, that will create a certain nuclear arms race. Not his motives, but the outcome.”
Graham said that he thinks the U.S. can “get a better deal,” and “must get a better deal,” in the interview.
“But I don’t want to do anything to hurt our cause of stopping this deal and this kind of rhetoric doesn’t help,” he said.
Listen to the exchange:
