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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Sen. Lindsey Graham died on Saturday, and the main mystery of the last decade of his life is why he grew so loyal to—so enamored, even worshipful of—Donald Trump. Throughout his four terms as U.S. senator, Graham was an avid supporter of NATO and distrustful of...
Continue Reading on https://slate.com/Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Days before the United States launched its war on Iran in late February, a senior official from an Arab nation was being escorted through the West Wing when the Oval Office door swung open to present three familiar faces: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. “What...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comMore than 20 years ago, Senator Lindsey Graham visited Ukraine for the first time. An election was looming, one that would be reversed and run again, and that would ultimately produce victory for the pro-Western Orange coalition. In the summer of 2004, however, all of that lay in the future. Graham, then in his first Senate term, joined his friend John McCain on a congressional delegation. At...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comPolitics / Obituary / Lindsey Graham Chose Evil Conspiracy theorists liked to say that Graham’s Trump sycophancy was a result of blackmail. But the truth is worse: He stuck with Trump to keep the US war machine going. Lindsey Graham gestures as President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on Air Force One, on January 4, 2026. (Alex Brandon / AP) Although Senator Lindsey Graham, who died...
Continue Reading on https://www.thenation.com/GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville said one of his staffers was with Sen. Lindsey Graham’s scheduler Saturday evening when the late senator called the scheduler to complain of chest pains and asked her to call for emergency services. “Lindsey called, called basically, said, ‘Listen, I’m having chest pains. You know, I need to do something,’” Tuberville said to reporters on Monday, relaying the account...
Continue Reading on https://drudgereport.comLindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother's temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced at a news conference at the Statehouse on Monday that Nordone would serve the remaining months on Graham's current term, which expires in January. A person familiar with the appointment process but not authorized to speak...
Continue Reading on http://www.newsmax.com/Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., spent his final days meeting foreign leaders, pressing for a tougher U.S. stance against Russia and planning Sunday TV appearances before his unexpected death capped a career defined by an assertive approach to American foreign policy. Graham died Saturday night at age 71 after returning to Washington from a trip to Turkey and Ukraine. Alert: 7 Tax Deductions You...
Continue Reading on http://www.newsmax.com/On July 13, 2015, my Washington Post colleague Michael Gerson and I interviewed Senator Lindsey Graham about his long-shot and, as it turned out, not terribly long-lasting Presidential campaign. The day before, on CNN, the South Carolina Republican had unloaded on Donald Trump, who had glided down the golden escalator at Trump Tower the previous month to launch his own, seemingly improbable,...
Continue Reading on https://www.newyorker.com/Senator Lindsey Graham, who died unexpectedly last night, was a pivotal citizen of the Washington conversation. He loved being in the mix, slapping bipartisan backs off camera, and then, when the lights came on, cracking wise, weighing in, and, yes, currying favor with a certain Audience of One. What could be more fitting, then, for Graham—unable to be a participant on this fateful Sunday...
Continue Reading on https://www.theatlantic.comSen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died suddenly over the weekend, his office announced on Sunday, and the political world is processing his legacy earlier than it ever expected to. More than perhaps any senator — even the currently ailing Mitch McConnell — Graham embodied the transition from an older era of the Republican Party and Washington politics to the Trump era we live in now. Graham was...
Continue Reading on https://www.vox.com/Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Within moments of the early Sunday morning announcement that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) had died, there was much obvious commentary about his journey from Trump foe to Trump suck-up. During the 2016 GOP presidential primary, when Graham was competing with the onetime reality TV...
Continue Reading on https://www.motherjones.com/Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died Saturday after a sudden illness, according to a statement from his office. He was 71. “Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!!” President Donald Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social, adding that Graham’s death was “so...
Continue Reading on https://www.theamericanconservative.com/President Donald Trump said Sunday that Sen. Lindsey Graham called him just hours before his death to discuss advancing the SAVE America Act, saying the South Carolina Republican sounded tired after returning from Ukraine but otherwise appeared to be in good spirits. "What makes it even stranger is I got a call last night some time in the early evening, maybe in the sevens, and he called, and...
Continue Reading on http://www.newsmax.com/Former President George W. Bush on Sunday mourned the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, calling the longtime South Carolina Republican a knowledgeable lawmaker who grasped why American power abroad matters, as tributes poured in for the 71-year-old foreign policy hawk who died Saturday night after what his office described as a brief and sudden illness. "Laura and I were saddened to wake up to...
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