{"id":221169,"date":"2026-08-19T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/photos-donald-trump-and-world-leaders-attend-lindsey-grahams-funeral-aljazeera-com\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T06:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:42:19","slug":"photos-donald-trump-and-world-leaders-attend-lindsey-grahams-funeral-aljazeera-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/photos-donald-trump-and-world-leaders-attend-lindsey-grahams-funeral-aljazeera-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Donald Trump and world leaders attend Lindsey Graham\u2019s funeral &#8211; aljazeera.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Pictures<br \/><em>Donald Trump said Lindsey Graham was a force in politics at the late senator\u2019s funeral in DC.<\/em><br \/>Save<br \/>Share<br \/>Hundreds of mourners have paid their respects to the late Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.<br \/>The Republican lawmaker and key ally of President Donald Trump <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/12\/us-senator-lindsey-graham-passes-away\">unexpectedly died<\/a> on July 11.<br \/>Graham was elected to the US Senate in 2002 and was re-elected in 2008, 2014 and 2020. In 1994, he was elected to \u2060the US House of Representatives, the lower house of the US Congress, for South Carolina\u2019s third congressional district. He recently served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Graham also served as a member of \u200cthe Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.<br \/>He was a strong supporter of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and had long pushed for military action against Iran.<br \/>Graham was a longtime backer of Israel and supported Trump\u2019s ongoing war on Iran.<br \/>He also vocally supported Ukraine after Russia invaded the country in 2022.<br \/>Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/28\/is-netanyahus-trump-card-losing-its-power-in-israel\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, Ukrainian President <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/28\/ukraines-zelenskyy-hails-good-meeting-with-trump-at-white-house\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> and several other world leaders attended Graham\u2019s funeral service on Tuesday afternoon at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC.<br \/>Trump gave remarks, calling Graham a force in the world and US politics. He called Graham \u201ca beloved friend\u201d and said that he \u201cdied doing the work he was born to do\u201d.<br \/>Follow Al Jazeera English:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxNeVlGckVWckcyeUVRenpkalQ1MGcybWtpdjhKSUdWRllxMWRDVlJzemN4UW1yS3pRMHp5YkMwSDhMLUZaODEwNEdDWHoxM3FwUEZsVkc2VGFRUDE4NktVMWh6TUc5SE91b1dEa3NKQkpuQUtwWW1sR0pMMXVSWjFtV1Y1M0xSQzR6bnRPMUVTNnlON0pXX0VwWjNydXZKUmFHZndFWkw1bEvSAa4BQVVfeXFMUF95cF8tSTRoYTI3eXNXUENOYWNhbTd6SnhPUE9lbDVERldaU1dDcktWX0FNYU1YSUNQaTZldnJENTB4bHlzc2ljaHJYRHhmRlJvekc0dmx4WVZGVi1vdWh6QmlNX1JCWEhra0JkTWRsOURIMGNfand2OENCQ1RJRU5Makt4S0otdWttZTlYYWEwWFBxYWtfV3dUbHNrQ2Rtd0t3SzFRYUFRNDFUTnd3?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In PicturesDonald Trump said Lindsey Graham was a force in politics at the late senator\u2019s funeral in DC.SaveShareHundreds of mourners have paid their respects to the late Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.The Republican lawmaker and key ally of President Donald Trump unexpectedly died on July 11.Graham was elected to the US Senate in 2002 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}