Graham rips Biden ‘slow-walking’ jets for Ukraine, supports no-fly zone if Russia uses chemical weapons

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday that he would support declaring a no-fly zone over Ukraine if it is discovered that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. 

Graham, who has called for either the arrest or assassination of Putin, criticized President Biden’s recent decision to reject a plan to send 28 fighter jets from Poland into Ukraine lest it provoke Putin and risk escalating the war into a nuclear conflict. 

“The Biden administration stopped that transfer. One minute they’re saying, ‘well they’re not using the planes we have but if we give them more it would be WWIII’,” Graham told “Sunday Morning Futures”host Maria Bartiromo. “What happened is Putin threatened Biden, and he folded like a cheap suit. Give them the planes.”  

“The speech in Poland by the vice president is not an adequate substitute of MiGs going into the Ukraine to help the Ukrainians defend themselves,” Graham added. 

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“I’m all in. I don’t want no boots on the ground, no-fly zone yet,” he added. “But if there are chemical weapons used by Putin, that’s a war crime, and then I support a no-fly zone.”

His remarks come after the chief of NATO warned on Sunday that Russia might use chemical weapons following its invasion of Ukraine and doing so would be considered a war crime. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department have all denied Russian allegations that the U.S. funded biological weapons in existing Ukrainian laboratories near the border. 

Graham dismissed concerns about a third world war if the U.S. sends jets to Ukraine, accusing the Biden administration of…