Trump praises Lindsey Graham as ‘one of the greatest people I have ever known’ after senator dies of sudden illness – live

The Guardian reports that Senator Lindsey Graham, the longtime South Carolina Republican and a key ally of President Donald Trump, has died following a sudden illness. A statement from his office said only that Graham had passed away from a brief and sudden illness, offering no further details. Citing police scanner audio, the Guardian relays that emergency crews responded to a call about chest pains at Graham's Capitol Hill home on Saturday evening, and that a man was later in cardiac arrest with CPR under way. Trump praised Graham as one of the greatest people he had ever known.

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