Trump says Lindsey Graham was ‘a little tired’ in phone call ‘shortly before’ death
President Donald Trump announced that he spoke with Senator Lindsey Graham just hours before Graham’s sudden death, noting that Graham appeared tired but otherwise fine during their call. Trump called into NBC’s Meet the Press after Graham’s death, which occurred following a brief illness. Graham had recently returned from a trip to Ukraine and was a close ally of Trump despite their past primary rivalry. The White House ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in his honor. Trump publicly mourned Graham on social media, praising him as a patriot and a great person. Graham died at age 71, and his staff described his passing as due to a “brief and sudden illness.”
President Donald Trump said he spoke to former Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just hours before his sudden death and that the senator said he was a “little tired.”
Trump called in to NBC News’s Meet the Press on Sunday, a show Graham was supposed to appear on, the morning after his death. The president recalled their phone call the night before, during which the senator seemed fine. He pointed out that the call may have taken place just “minutes before” his death.
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“What makes it even stranger is that I got a call last night, sometime you know, the early evening, maybe in the sevens, and he called and he said we’re all set for the SAVE America Act,“ he said.
“He said he’s a little tired,” Trump added.
“Other than being tired, he was fine,” the president said. “And so it had to be something like that, that would just be a quick end. And maybe that’s not the worst way to go.”
The White House ordered flags to be flown at half-staff to honor Graham.
Graham died on Saturday night from what his staff called a “brief and sudden illness.” He had just returned from his 10th, and final, wartime visit to Ukraine, during which he was in close contact with Trump to coordinate the White House’s next moves around the Russia-Ukraine war.
Despite a heated 2016 primary, Graham distinguished himself as one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress, providing the Republican hawk faction a direct line to the president.
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Before his Meet the Press appearance, Trump commemorated the senator in a post on Truth Social shortly after the death was announced.
“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!!!” Trump wrote, adding, “DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW.”
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