Lindsey Graham brushed off Iran's threats just five days before his sudden death
Five days before he died, Sen. Lindsey Graham posted a photo on X showing Iranian mourners parading a poster with a bullseye over his face. His response was seven words long: "At least they used a good photo of me."Graham added one more line, "Judge me by my enemies", and went back to work. He flew to Ukraine. He toured a drone factory. He met with President Volodymyr Zelensky. He announced a deal on Russia sanctions. Then he came home and, one day later, was dead at 71.
The South Carolina Republican's death from what his office called a "brief and sudden illness" closed a career defined by an unapologetic willingness to confront hostile regimes, and by a final week that captured that posture in miniature. The New York Post reported that emergency dispatch calls suggested Graham experienced chest pain followed by a heart attack, though no official cause of death has been confirmed.
National Review reported the cause as sudden cardiac arrest, placing Graham's death on Saturday night, July 11, 2026. He had returned from Kyiv, his tenth trip to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion, just one day earlier.
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