“The View” co-hosts Sara Haines and Ana Navarro called for decency following the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday during the daytime talk show, noting the ugly commentary circulating online.
“First thing I want to say is, I saw a lot of posts online this week kind of celebrating his death and rejoicing,” Navarro said. “And listen, I know that Trump does that. He did it with Bob Mueller, he did it with John McCain, he did it with Rob Reiner. But it’s inhumane and lacking empathy. And the dead person is dead and can’t hear you and can’t read your posts. But his family, his sister who he adopted when she was 13 because both of their parents died, is alive, and is hearing it. And so I think that for the benefit, for humanity, for having, you know, a normal decency towards the family of the dead, that just has to stop.”
Multiple political commentators have cheered Graham’s death as others have criticized his legacy following the news. Far-left streamer Hasan Piker called him a “bloodthirsty, odious monster” in reaction to the news on Sunday.
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Navarro, in addition to co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg, were also critical of the late senator during the discussion, citing his relationship with President Donald Trump.
“But as to Lindsey, for me, there was a Lindsey before Trump and a Lindsey after Trump. There were two completely different Lindseys. This brought out all sorts of feelings in me. Honestly, I feel like I buried Lindsey when John McCain died, because he became just a completely different person,” Navarro said.
Hostin quoted Steve Schmidt, who co-founded the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, who Hostin said wrote, “Lindsey knew better.”
“He was certainly this political chameleon,” Hostin said. “And his legacy is complicated and people are speaking out about the very hypocrisy that you saw when he was John McCain’s friend and when he became friends with Donald Trump. Steve Schmidt, who’s a political strategist and worked on the John McCain campaign in 2008, wrote just today, ‘Lindsey knew better.’ And he said he was ‘a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention.’ That is someone that knew him. He also called him a ‘pilot fish, a smaller fish that hovers about a larger predator, like a shark, living off of its deleterious, and that’s Lindsey.'”
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Haines also called out the negative posts online.
“I’m going to echo Ana’s sentiments that the person who passed won’t hear the people’s comments,” she said. “I’m more of the thought that he is no longer at play. I did not know him at all. I didn’t know really much about him. But it did disturb me that people were online saying things like, don’t humanize him. You don’t have to humanize a human. He was a human. So there were people that loved him, there were people that cared for him. And whether I disagreed with him completely or not, he’s gone. So my heart goes out to the people around him that are suffering.”
“The Young Turks” co-host and executive producer Ana Kasparian responded to the news that Graham had died on X with two words.
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“Good riddance,” Kasparian said.
Far-right commentator Nick Fuentes had the same response as Kasparian.
Another co-founder of the Lincoln Project, Rick Wilson, suggested during a podcast conversation that Graham’s death was a form of “karmic comfort” for some people, as reported by Mediaite.
“Lindsey Graham sold his soul to Donald Trump to get a war with Iran and died knowing how badly Donald Trump had f—ed it up,” Wilson said. “For people looking for some like, karmic comfort in this, there you go.”
