{"id":84394,"date":"2026-07-13T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84394"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:58:35","slug":"graham-may-have-died-from-aorta-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/graham-may-have-died-from-aorta-tear\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham May Have Died From Aorta Tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/lindsey-graham\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Lindsey Graham<\/a><\/span>, one of President Donald Trump\u2019s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lindsey-graham-death-reactions-30c9758bfc124c30e8e4db0e4dd719e2\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">more aggressive U.S. foreign policy<\/a><\/span>, died after a tear in his aorta, according to a preliminary medical examiner finding shared by his office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The tear in the inner wall of the aorta, called an aortic dissection, was related to the hardening of Graham\u2019s arteries. An official cause of death will be disclosed after toxicological and microscopic testing.\u00a0Graham,\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lindsey-graham-south-carolina-senate-trump-88aaf34c3a2f1daa382b80b2099ccf5f\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">a prominent South Carolina Republican<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and f<\/span>ormer Air Force lawyer who served in Congress for more than three decades, had turned 71 years old just two days before dying on Saturday night. His office had originally said he had suffered from a \u201cbrief and sudden illness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Sen.\u00a0Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump\u2019s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84395,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84394\/revisions\/84395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}