Lindsey Graham Talks Trump In ‘Hoax Calls’ With Russians Pranksters Lexus & Vovan

WASHINGTON, DC. (THECOUNT) — Sen. Lindsey Graham labeled the Kurds a “threat” in a phone call with a couple pranksters posing as Turkey’s minister of defense.

Graham has in the last year become something of a congressional point man for President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Turkey, leading discussions on everything from Ankara’s purchase of a Russian missile system over the summer to their more recent incursion into northern Syria, reports politico.

So when he received a call from a man he thought was Turkey’s minister of defense earlier in August, it didn’t strike him as unusual. “Thank you so much for calling me, Mr. Minister,” Graham said. “I want to make this a win-win, if we can.”

But it wasn’t the Turkish defense minister at all. Instead, it was Alexey Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov, Russian pranksters with suspected ties to the country’s intelligence services who go by “Lexus and Vovan.”

Listen to the recording to politico.

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