GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville said one of his staffers was with Sen. Lindsey Graham’s scheduler Saturday evening when the late senator called the scheduler to complain of chest pains and asked her to call for emergency services.
“Lindsey called, called basically, said, ‘Listen, I’m having chest pains. You know, I need to do something,’” Tuberville said to reporters on Monday, relaying the account of those involved.
Tuberville said Graham’s scheduler asked if he had called 911 and Graham responded, “no, that’s the reason I called you.”
“By the time she got there, 911 had knocked the door down, and they were working on him,” he said.
The senator’s account adds new details to what happened before Graham died, appearing to confirm some aspects of what is known about an emergency phone call about the incident.
