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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is “assisting local authorities” in the wake of the sudden passing of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
“Senator Lindsey Graham was a devoted public servant, a fierce defender of our nation, and a true patriot who dedicated his life to the people of South Carolina and the United States,” wrote FBI Director Kash Patel in a statement posted to X this week.
“…The FBI is assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available,” he added.
Graham, 71, died on Saturday night. As reported by RSBN, he died of a ruptured aorta, according to preliminary findings from the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in D.C.
Online, video surfaced showing federal agents at the late senator’s house, spurring curious speculation from the public about what was going on.
On Tuesday, a reporter asked President Donald Trump during a bilateral press conference with the Prime Minister of Iraq why the FBI was investigating at Graham’s home.
“If you look at his father – [he] died of the same thing at about the same age,” the president said of Graham’s alleged cause of death.
“And when that bursts, which it did…I don’t see a lot of evil there,” he continued. “I know there’s all sorts of conspiracy theories going along and I think the FBI is wasting their time if they’re doing that.”
Just before Sen. Graham died, he made his last public remarks during a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. His remarks were delivered the day before he died.
While in Ukraine, Graham discussed his work in the U.S. Senate to sanction Russia, according to Zelensky. This week, after Graham’s death, Sen, Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for the passage of the late senator’s sanctions package.
“I urge Senator Thune, in honor of Lindsey, to put the Russian sanctions bill on the floor immediately,” he said this week. “…It will pass overwhelmingly and help our allies in Ukraine. Not seeing eye to eye is no reason to be blind to the way forward.”
