Trump says he spoke with Sen. Lindsey Graham hours before his death

President Donald Trump said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he spoke with Sen. Lindsey Graham hours before his death

President Donald Trump told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Sunday that he spoke with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Saturday night, hours before the senator died.

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Trump said that “other than being tired, he was fine,” adding that he believed Graham’s death was a “quick end, and maybe that’s not the worst way to go.”

The late senator was a close ally of Trump’s, and the president described him to “Meet the Press” as someone who was “like a member of the family to me.” The two spoke regularly on the phone and golfed together. Graham had just returned from a trip to Ukraine before his sudden death.