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“Trump is transactional, always looking for where the money is. He's a businessman; he admits it, and he's not ashamed of it; he's proud of it. The Gulf States understood that from the beginning."

I last communicated with Graham just a few days before I received the message on Sunday morning that he had died. It took me a while to process that message.

Graham died Saturday, aged 71, following what his office described as a “brief and sudden illness.” His office did not immediately disclose an official cause of death.  

"As much as it frustrates me, this process takes time... And on the advice of my doctors, I won’t be able to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet," said US Senator Mitch McConnell.

With Graham dead, McConnell still in the hospital, and midterms approaching, it looks like the Republicans' supermajority in Congress could shift.

"I'll stand with Israel until the day I die. It is our greatest ally," Graham told The Jerusalem Post in an interview just a few months before his death.

US President Donald Trump was directly involved in negotiating some costs for the ballroom, A Washington Post report said.

Carlson and MTG are seasoned political figures, and it would be highly naive to assume their break with the GOP is an act of desperation on the spur of the moment.

Something profound was revealed in Klein’s letter, beyond the betrayal. Israelis are starting to realize what’s on the horizon. Trump has been the greatest defender of Israel, but things are changing

Paige, an African elephant, was paraded through the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston after Governor Greg Abbott’s keynote speech, and was seen wearing a large banner supporting Abbott.