{"id":71619,"date":"2026-07-12T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=71619"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:06:17","slug":"this-can-happen-right-after-you-meet-with-an-antichrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=71619","title":{"rendered":"

This can happen right after you meet with an antichrist<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 71.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His office released a statement saying he died on Saturday evening following “a brief and sudden illness”, adding that Graham’s family had asked for “privacy during this incredibly difficult period”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Elected to the Senate in 2002, the South Carolina politician was one of Washington’s most influential voices on foreign policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He had just returned from Kyiv, where he met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. There were no known health concerns ahead of his trip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a social media post marking the senator’s death, US President Donald Trump said Graham was a “true American Patriot”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Graham also served as Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was a strong proponent of US support for Ukraine. In his most recent trip to the country, Graham was working on a version of the Russia sanctions bill, which he said would give “tools to President Trump to end this war”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was “deeply saddened” by the news of the senator’s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a\u00a0post on his official X account<\/a>, Zelenskyy said Graham had visited the country 10 times since Russia’s full-scale invasion and was “with our people when it was most needed”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“America and the world have lost a determined leader”, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Graham initially clashed with the US president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He told CNN in 2015 that Trump was “a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot”, and during the 2016 campaign he posted on social media: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed… and we will deserve it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After the US Capitol riots in 2021, Graham gave a speech on the Senate floor in which he said: “Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“All I can say is a count me out. Enough is enough.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But he later became one of his staunchest backers. He voted against convicting Trump in the 2021 impeachment trial,\u00a0<\/b>and supported Trump in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He\u00a0told the BBC in 2023<\/a>: “There is a dark side to Donald Trump… and he was a very good president. But I am sticking with him because I saw what he did.” He cited Trump’s record on the US southern border, the killing of Iran’s powerful military commander Qasem Soleimani and the appointment of conservative judges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Graham “consistently pushed for outcomes in the War on Terror that protect our long-term national security interests”, his website said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was opposed to the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021, describing it as a “sad and dangerous event for US national security”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Jihadists all over the world are celebrating,” he added. “America will be seen as weak.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Graham was also a staunch supporter of Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Israel’s President Benjamin Netanyahu paid tribute to Graham on Sunday, saying “Lindsey understood that the security of Israel and America are inseparable”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Israel lost “one of its greatest friends”, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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