Lindsey Graham has passed away. Before we celebrate too much, there is still a chance that we will help bring about more suffering and death, just as he did during his lifetime.
Let’s start by looking at the official version of Lindsay’s death, and then look at other theories and those who are trying to use his death to impose his death on countries that want the United States to be even tougher than its current bellicose insanity.
Graham’s office said he died Saturday night after a “short-term sudden illness.” More from NBC News:
Emergency crews responded to a call of a “cardiac arrest” at Graham’s Capitol Hill home Saturday night, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC News. EMS audio then indicated that CPR was in progress.
Photos from the scene obtained by NBC News show paramedics carrying a person on a stretcher from Graham’s home to a waiting ambulance. Police cars and fire trucks were also at the scene…Graham’s office announced Sunday that the preliminary cause of death was “aortic dissection due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease,” or rupture of the aorta due to hardening of the arteries.
President Donald Trump said Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he spoke to Graham on Saturday night, hours before he died.
President Trump said on Meet the Press that he “remembered” Lindsey Graham and spoke to him “minutes before” his death, calling his death “a huge blow to the law that saved America.” Trump went on to say he already had a replacement for Graham in mind, and also shot down Kristen Welker… pic.twitter.com/3gKTZa8XFd
— Aaron Looper (@atrupar) July 12, 2026
Barak Rabid, White House stenographer for Axios, said:
A person who spoke with Mr. Graham shortly afterward said the senator complained of not feeling well. When the person urged him to seek medical attention immediately, Graham said he planned to do so Sunday morning after a scheduled appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Graham also joked, “I can’t die now. I still need to implement sanctions on Russia, sort out Iran, and normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”
Mr. Rabid’s scoop differs from what Mr. Graham’s office released on Sunday (Mr. Graham’s senior staff told NBC News early Sunday that there was no sign that the congressman was feeling unwell before his death).
He certainly looked like his usual self.
Perfect final image.
Did Lindsay die in Kyiv?
Except that Lindsay happened to be in Kiev on Saturday, and happened to be touring a drone factory that may have been attacked by Russia that night. Despite reading multiple reports, it is unclear whether the facility Graham toured was actually attacked by Russia. For example, International Business Times:
Skyfall, the Ukrainian drone company whose facilities were attacked, confirmed that a U.S. Republican senator visited its production facility on July 11, 2026, and was briefed on the development and production of combat unmanned systems. During the visit, Graham was shown an array of systems, including the heavy reconnaissance-attack Vampire drone (known on the front lines as “Baba Yaga”), the multi-configuration Shrike first-person drone, and the P1-SUN interceptor drone designed to counter Shahed-type loitering weapons. He also said he had reached an agreement with the White House on Russia sanctions legislation.
but:
…Ukrainian authorities have not publicly identified the Skyfall facility visited by Mr. Graham as one of the facilities damaged in the Russian attack.
Therefore, it is not yet clear whether the facility Lindsay toured was attacked by Russia. According to the Kyiv Post, “Skyfall is a Ukrainian technological defense company that integrates a large research and development center, a scalable production line and a certified Skyfall Academy for training pilots, instructors and technicians.”
It is also possible that Lindsey may have visited the damaged facility again without notice.
Russian forces attacked a military-industrial complex in Kiev on Saturday, TASS reported.
The Ukrainian military industry enterprise in Kiev, involved in the production and storage of medium- and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, was hit…
The report does not mention either.
For example, Larry Johnson is simply calling BS on the official line based on the timeline.
Senator Graham arrived in Kiev between 9:45 and 10:45 local time on July 10th. The train he took from Poland left Warsaw on July 9 at 18:15 local time. It was a night train. To arrive in Poland in time for the 18:15 train, Lindsey was supposed to leave Dulles International Airport around 07:00 local time on July 9. The flight from Dulles to Warsaw is 9 hours.
So Lindsey Graham arrives in Kiev at 11am on Friday morning. They met with Mr. Zelensky and toured a drone factory. You are then asked to believe that he will be back in Washington, DC after less than 24 hours on the ground. Once again, I call bullshit!!
The earliest train back to Warsaw will leave Kiev Pasazirskie between 07:40 and 08:00 on the 11th and arrive at Przemysl Central Station in the afternoon (~17:00-18:00). That’s at least 9 hours. That means your time in Washington DC will be approximately 1100 hours. Assume that he has one hour to get to the airport and the plane takes off from Poland at 19:00 local time. The westbound flight takes 10 hours…which means the earliest the plane could land in Dulles is midnight on the 11th. That was three and a half hours after Graham was reported to have died at his home.
Andrew Korybko implores “Stop the madness: Putin didn’t kill Lindsey Graham!” His reasoning is as follows.
One theory advanced by Russia’s friends is that Mr. Graham was killed during a Russian attack on another drone factory in Ukraine that he was secretly visiting, but President Trump acknowledged that he had already returned to the United States and had spoken to Mr. Graham the night before his death. It is inconceivable that he, who is known to be highly emotional, would cover up Putin’s murder of a close friend. It is even more difficult to believe that the anti-Russian deep state would also avoid the opportunity to further escalate against Russia.
While it is true that some leading Russian figures have threatened Graham in the past, it is natural to speak ill of wartime adversaries, and Graham was definitely an enemy of Russia because he believed wholeheartedly in the founding of his country and the deep state’s anti-Russian cause. To that end, he defended the most hawkish anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian policies until his death, as he prepared to push through radical sanctions legislation targeting Russia’s oil customers.
In my opinion, the only convincing aspect of this argument is that if we want escalation, more Blob members will support the theory that Putin was killed (true or not).
However, Laura Loomer is involved in this case.
Obviously, in the case of Russia, they will never admit that Lindsay Graham may have been vaporized in the Iskander attack during a publicity visit to a drone factory in a conflict zone.
Therefore, they will invent more “sophisticated” ways for Russia to assassinate him… https://t.co/B9hk2mZd9U
— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) July 12, 2026
Mr. Korivko may be right, but Putin did not kill Graham. Is it possible that someone or a group in the Russian military, fed up with the slow progress of the war, the Kremlin’s refusal to target the real culprits in the conflict, and Graham’s naivety, took matters into their own hands?
Will someone admit it?
🇺🇸!! ️🚨 Lindsey Graham
Let me be clear: I have no idea what happened to him.
But here are some realities.
1) If Russia actually killed him, it doesn’t matter whether it was accidental or intentional… in which case the US would never admit it (not right away). It will create uncontrollable pressure… https://t.co/2VzbIYv1QV pic.twitter.com/Ei7uMP4zdC
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) July 12, 2026
Regardless of how Lindsey met his end, and despite the fact that another bloodthirsty Moloch will likely take his place (1), it’s good news that he’s gone. I’ll end with a long quote from Caitlin Johnston.
Since the death of Graham’s dear friend John McCain, no one on Capitol Hill has matched his gleeful enthusiasm for using expensive war machines to shred human bodies. Whenever there is a discussion about dropping bombs, launching missiles, overthrowing foreign governments, arming proxy forces, imposing starvation sanctions, etc., you can count on Lindsey Graham to be the first and loudest voice in favor of more death and destruction.
Graham has personally praised President Trump for convincing him to go to war with Iran. In the months leading up to his unexpected death, the senator had just returned from a trip to Kiev where he advocated for direct U.S. military intervention in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Yemen, Nigeria, Lebanon, and Palestine, and promoted the U.S. proxy war against Russia. He was pushing for more wars and militarism literally until the end of his life.
The world’s worst people, from Trump to Benjamin Netanyahu to Itamar Ben Gvir to Tom Cotton to Mike Huckabee, have all publicly expressed their grief over the loss of their beloved women of war. Meanwhile, everyone who isn’t a warmongering psychopath is having a great day.
Of course, we see those in charge of imperialist narratives like Piers Morgan wagging their fingers and scolding viewers to say hell with them instead of badmouthing the dead. We haven’t done that. Civility is not as important as it is for Lindsey Graham’s victims. Decency and an unfettered desire for good feelings do not outweigh the importance of naming and shaming Graham’s frenzied actions to kill as many people as possible through his evil and miserable life.
Lindsey Graham is dead, and it’s a good thing he’s dead. May his murderous ideology soon join him in the arms of the cold, cold ground. May the mad, insatiable God he worshiped become unrecognizable on this earth.
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Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster will immediately make an appointment to fill Graham’s seat for the remainder of his term, which ends in January. Who will be the Republican candidate in the next election? According to the Washington Post, some candidates said:
Mr. Graham won South Carolina’s Republican Senate primary last month, and the state will hold a special Republican primary in the coming weeks to choose a new candidate. Given the rapid turnaround, candidates may include the same people targeted in the primary vote.
South Carolina businessman Mark Lynch came in second after Graham in the primary, with the incumbent receiving about 57% of the vote and Lynch about 29%. Other Republican candidates include Paul Dunnes, who served in the first Trump administration and helped develop the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 plan, which influenced the president’s second term.
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace is seeking Mr. Graham’s seat.
