{"id":759350,"date":"2026-07-12T23:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:31:07","slug":"fox-news-halts-broadcast-with-breaking-update-on-lindsey-grahams-death-amid-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759350\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News halts broadcast with breaking update on Lindsey Graham\u2019s death amid conspiracy theories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News correspondent Alex Hogan paused a live broadcast to share that law enforcement sources told the network that \u201cfoul play\u201d does not appear to be a factor in the South Carolina senator\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

The update came just hours after President Donald Trump<\/a> announced Graham\u2019s passing early Sunday morning on social media. The longtime lawmaker had returned to Washington D.C.<\/a>, from a trip to Ukraine shortly before his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump here at the White House earlier today had ordered that all flags across the country be lowered to half staff in support of the life of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham,\u201d Hogan said during the segment. \u201cNow, we also know that it was early this morning that the senator\u2019s team, their official office, releasing that he had died of what they are calling a \u2018brief and sudden illness.\u2019\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Shortly after the broadcast, more details began to emerge about the circumstances surrounding Graham\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary findings from the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the 71-year-old died from a ruptured aorta brought on by chronic heart disease. The condition was formally identified as Aortic Dissection due to Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease.<\/p>\n

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Fox News has been covering Lindsey Graham’s death -Credit:FOX News<\/p>\n

Graham\u2019s communications director, Taylor Reidy, shared the findings publicly on X on Sunday, July 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe death certificate will be pending until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized and at that point the death certificate will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death,\u201d the medical examiner\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Before the official cause of death was released, speculation began circulating online.<\/p>\n

Far-right influencer and Trump ally Laura Loomer posted on X that Graham\u2019s death should be investigated to determine whether \u201cIran or Russia poisoned\u201d the senator, \u201cwho suddenly died last night very unexpectedly.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Lindsey Graham died suddenly on July 12 -Credit:Getty Images<\/p>\n

Others shared similar conspiracy theories, pointing to earlier remarks suggesting that the FBI would assist in any investigation. Critics later argued that those comments helped fuel the online speculation.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, reporting from The Wall Street Journal added new context to the timeline of events leading up to Graham\u2019s death. The outlet reported that emergency responders were called to the senator\u2019s home Saturday night and \u201cperformed CPR on an individual suffering from cardiac arrest,\u201d according to dispatch audio reviewed by the paper.<\/p>\n

Trump also spoke about his final conversation with Graham during a call-in to Sunday news programs. He described speaking with the senator shortly before learning of his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to him, just, he had already landed. Was probably at his place. I don\u2019t know where he was, but I spoke to him, and then I got a call a few hours later saying late in the evening, at 2:00 in the morning, actually. But they found out about it, I think about 8:00 about his problem. So it had to be something very quick because he was fine when I spoke to him. Other than being tired, he was fine,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News correspondent Alex Hogan paused a live broadcast to share that law enforcement sources told the network…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-759350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}