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President Donald Trump addressed the rocky start to his relationship with former Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., acknowledging at the late senator’s funeral he “shouldn’t have” shared Graham’s personal phone number at a rally during the 2016 Republican presidential primary, sounding lightly apologetic at the memorial for the senator who later became his “great friend.”
Speaking at the late South Carolina senator’s funeral, Trump acknowledged he “did something I shouldn’t have done” on the campaign trail in 2015.
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Reacting after Graham called Trump a “jacka–” in 2015, Trump said he “did something that I shouldn’t have done — I shared his personal cell phone number with the millions of people that happened to be watching that particular day, as I made a speech, a very important speech.”
Trump joked that Graham’s phone “exploded” after the reveal—prompting Graham to destroy the device a day later on video.
Trump said the incident was actually the “beginning of a friendship,” noting “it was Lindsey who had the last laugh, because while I blew up his phone all for one day, we became great friends and Lindsey did not stop calling me for the next 10 years.”
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