Lindsey Graham died doing what he loved: egging on faraway violence. After returning from a trip to a drone factory in Ukraine, the Republican senator from South Carolina suddenly came down with chest pains. One of his last acts was phoning President Donald Trump—a man who Graham had once called "unfit for office"—to push for more aggressive policies in Europe and the Middle East.
"I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out, and do Israeli-Saudi normalization," Graham reportedly joked to the people around him, feeling ill after his call with Trump. But about half an hour after being called to Graham's house on Saturday night, medics reported that the 71-year-old senator was undergoing cardiac arrest. The medical examiner declared Graham dead of an aortic dissection caused by high blood pressure.
