Axios: Before dying, Senator Lindsey Graham joked about sanctions… (грэм · сенатор · санкция)
Axios: Before dying, Senator Lindsey Graham joked about sanctions against Russia and Iran.
Consensus
- Lindsey Graham died on July 11, 2024, after a sudden and brief illness.
- Graham discussed sanctions against Russia with President Donald Trump in his final hours.
- Graham expressed concern about his health shortly before death but postponed seeking medical help until after a scheduled television interview.
- Graham joked that he could not die yet because he still had to work on sanctions against Russia, Iran, and normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
- The sources agree that Graham was in poor health during the final hours of his life.
Points of divergence
- Graham had been working on a plan for normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, discussing it with Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff, and planned to visit both countries after the November midterm elections. — vedomosti
- Trump stated in a CNN interview that Graham wanted the Russia-Ukraine conflict to continue, despite Trump's own efforts to resolve it. — vedomosti
- Graham claimed that the White House had supported his plan for imposing tariffs on buyers of Russian oil. — vm
- Trump described Graham’s death as a 'quick end' and said it might have been 'not the worst way to die,' calling him a close ally and like family. — vm
Coverage (3 sources)
- Graham joked about anti-Russian sanctions shortly before his death — Вести
- Graham in the final hours of his life thought about introducing new sanctions against Russia — Ведомости
- Axios: Senator Lindsey Graham joked about sanctions against Russia and Iran before his death — Вечерняя Москва