Lindsey Graham made macabre joke and brushed off feeling unwell before his death: report

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Senator Lindsey Graham reportedly brushed off advice to seek medical attention after admitting he didn’t feel well hours before his sudden death — before joking that he “can’t die now.”

The South Carolina Republican died Saturday night from an aortic rupture caused by hardened arteries, the Medical Examiner of the District of Columbia concluded in a preliminary report Sunday. He was 71.

He had spent the last weeks of his life working toward brokering normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel, according to an account from Axios reporter Barak Ravid.

Graham spoke with President Donald Trump over the phone Saturday night, briefing him on his trip to Ukraine, which he returned from Friday. Trump told Graham he was preparing to launch more strikes against Iran following another attack on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Ravid reported.

However, shortly after getting off the phone with Trump, Graham reportedly told another confidant that he wasn’t feeling well. That person urged the senator to seek medical attention immediately, and Graham said he would after his scheduled appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press the following morning.

Senator Lindsey Graham reportedly joked that he ‘can’t die now’ just hours before his death Saturday night (Reuters)

Graham then reportedly joked, “I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization,” according to Axios.

He died several hours later from what his office described as a “brief and sudden illness” at his Washington, D.C. home.

This is a developing story…