Lindsey Graham joked I cant die now after complaining he felt unwell hours before sudden death at 71

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly joked “I can’t die now” after complaining he felt unwell – hours before he died at the age of 71 from a suspected ruptured aorta brought on by chronic heart disease.Graham’s death was announced in the early hours of Sunday – a little over a day after he toured a secret Ukrainian military drone factory and sat down for talks with the war-torn country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky.Graham, who was due to appear on Sunday’s episode of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” told someone close to him he was feeling unwell Saturday after returning from his Ukraine trip, Axios reported.“I can’t die now.I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization,” the Trump ally quipped, according to the source.Graham spoke with President Trump about his trip to Ukraine and the bipartisan Russian sanctions package the pol was spearheading through Congress with Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). Lawmakers had reached an agreement with the White House – and the measures would allow the Trump administration to slap hefty tariffs on nations fueling Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin’s war machine.Blumenthal said passing the bill would be a “fitting tribute” to the late senator. “I will forever remember our last lengthy conversation this weekend, when he exulted at reaching an agreement on our Russian sanctions bill & said, ‘this is a big effing deal—we all did good,’” Blumenthal wrote on X Sunday.“He was tireless in pursuing freedom for Ukraine & brought to this cause his signature relentless energy & optimism,” he said. “He marched to his own drummer.

He could be strong-minded, fiercely driven, & sometimes unpredictable, but also deeply compassionate & sympathetic when he saw suffering & injustice.I was always impressed with his kindness to people we met along the way.”Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said he would put forward a Russia sanctions bill in t...