FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday his bureau is \u201cassisting local authorities\u201d in the wake of the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). \u201cSenator Lindsey Graham was a devoted public servant, a fierce defender of our nation, and a true patriot who dedicated his life to the people of South Carolina and the United States,\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday his bureau is \u201cassisting local authorities\u201d in the wake of the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). \u201cSenator Lindsey Graham was a devoted public servant, a fierce defender of our nation, and a true patriot who dedicated his life to the people of South Carolina and the United States,\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[430],"tags":[20499,972,1121,3799,25414,4138,25443],"class_list":["post-35626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump","tag-assisting","tag-authorities","tag-death","tag-fbi","tag-grahams","tag-local","tag-patel"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",0,0,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",0,0,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",0,0,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",300,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",1024,1024,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",1536,1536,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",2048,2048,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",370,265,false],"kava-thumb-s":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",150,85,false],"kava-thumb-s-2":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",230,230,false],"kava-thumb-m":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",400,400,false],"kava-thumb-m-vertical":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",370,500,false],"kava-thumb-m-2":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",570,450,false],"kava-thumb-l":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",1170,650,false],"kava-thumb-xl":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",1920,1080,false],"kava-thumb-masonry":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",600,999,false],"kava-thumb-justify":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",640,640,false],"kava-thumb-justify-2":["https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/patelkash_051226gn02_w.jpg?w=900",1280,640,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"#RiseCelestialStudios","author_link":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/author\/ralph-c\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Trump News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday his bureau is \u201cassisting local authorities\u201d in the wake of the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). \u201cSenator Lindsey Graham was a devoted public servant, a fierce defender of our nation, and a true patriot who dedicated his life to the people of South Carolina and the United States,\u201d…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35628,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions\/35628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}