{"id":76070,"date":"2026-07-13T17:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/trump-calls-late-sen-lindsey-graham-a-great-friend\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:54:55","slug":"trump-calls-late-sen-lindsey-graham-a-great-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/trump-calls-late-sen-lindsey-graham-a-great-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls late Sen. Lindsey Graham a &#8216;great friend&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his first on-camera comments since the passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., President Donald Trump called the late Republican senator a &#8220;great friend&#8221; and that it was &#8220;hard to believe he&#8217;s gone.&#8221; NBC News&#8217; Sahil Kapur discusses how the loss of Graham will affect the Senate and the appointment of his sister to his seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his first on-camera comments since the passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., President Donald Trump called the late Republican senator a &#8220;great friend&#8221; and that it was &#8220;hard to believe he&#8217;s gone.&#8221; NBC News&#8217; Sahil Kapur discusses how the loss of Graham will affect the Senate and the appointment of his sister to his &#8230; <a title=\"Trump calls late Sen. Lindsey Graham a &#8216;great friend&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/trump-calls-late-sen-lindsey-graham-a-great-friend\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump calls late Sen. Lindsey Graham a &#8216;great friend&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}