Sick trolls have responded to the death of GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham with gloating homophobic remarks and other twisted comments.
But the late South Carolina pol, who died Saturday at age 71, also received support from an unlikely source: Monica Lewinsky, the onetime young White House lover of Democratic then-President Bill Clinton.
“Lindsey Graham is dead. Have a great Sunday!” said “Game of Thrones” star and activist Liam Cunningham on X.
Author Seth Harp posted, “I was going to go piss on Lindsey Graham’s grave, but when I got out of the army, I vowed that I would never wait in line for anything ever again.”
Grayzone correspondent Wyatt Reed wrote on X, “Congratulations to every peace-loving person on the planet — The world is a little brighter today. Happy holidays to all who celebrate!”
White supremacist Nick Fuentes wrote, “Good riddance” on X, while Ana Kasparian from “The Young Turks” radical news program also posted, “Good riddance.”
Other people made homophobic comments about Graham, who was single, had no children and was rumored to be gay.
Some commenters decided it was important to reference Graham’s alleged sexual preference in their tweets.
“Everyone on CNN saying Lindsay Graham was a ‘complicated’ man, like just say gay please lol,” journalist John Teufel posted.
Another journo, Eric Spracklen, wrote on X, “Please stop acting happy over Lindsey Graham and pray for his wife and kids.”
Many X users, including former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, responded by criticizing the trolls.
“You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies,” Pratt wrote on X.
Journalist Piers Morgan also compared the sick social-media reaction to Graham’s passing to the response to the violent death of British politician Ann Widdecombe this week.
“Seeing the despicably cruel, heartless and abusive way that many people in UK and US have responded to the deaths of conservative politicians, Ann Widdecombe and Lindsey Graham, reminds me that the least kind people on earth are ironically those on the #BeKind woke left,” Morgan wrote on X.
Lewinsky also defended Graham, thanking him for supporting her when she was the victim of a smear campaign by Clinton’s administration.
“I’ve disagreed with many (many) of Lindsey Graham’s choices and beliefs, but he was also — as one of the house managers on the ‘98 impeachment — the one who worked tirelessly to prove there was a smear campaign against me from inside the WH. RIP,” Lewinsky wrote.
Graham died after a “brief illness,” according to a statement from his office.
The experienced politician had just returned from a state visit to Ukraine, his 10th since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
He received praise from across the world after his death, with President Trump saying he was “like family.”
Graham also was described as a “true defender of freedom and the values of our alliance” by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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