THEY’RE BLAMING PUTIN: CLAIMS SAY LINDSEY GRAHAM MAY HAVE BEEN ASSASSINATED BY RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE
🕯️ Republican Senator Lindsey Graham died on Saturday, July 11, in Washington at age 71, just one day after returning from Ukraine. His office attributed his death to “a brief and sudden illness,” while press reports point to cardiac arrest at his Capitol Hill home.
📸 And one detail gives the case an almost cinematic feel: possibly the last photograph of the senator shows him holding a drone during his tour of the SkyFall plant, one of Ukraine’s leading defense tech companies. There he saw “Vampire” drones, “Shrike” FPVs and Shahed interceptors, and warned it would be a “huge mistake” for the US not to forge a solid drone partnership with Ukraine. Roughly 24 hours later, he was dead.
🗣️ Against that backdrop, Russian sociologist and opposition figure Igor Eidman claimed Graham may have been killed by the intelligence services of Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. According to him, two factors point in that direction: the timing and the location. He suggests the senator could have been poisoned with a delayed-action substance, possibly aboard the special train he took in and out of Ukraine.
🧠 The motive, according to the dissident? Graham was seen as the most pro-Ukraine politician in Trump’s circle: he pushed “hellish sanctions” against Moscow, called for Tomahawk missiles for Kyiv and, in the Kremlin’s eyes, was the man pulling Trump away from Putin. The senator himself publicly called in 2022 for someone in Russia to “take out” Putin.
🔍 The key point: so far there is no evidence to support this theory. No autopsy or toxicology results have been released, and no US agency has announced an investigation into foreign involvement. For now, Eidman’s claim against Putin’s government remains the speculation of a single voice.