The conspiracy theory that Putin killed Trump’s close friend and eventually one of his top political allies Lindsey Graham, whether in a strike on a Ukrainian drone factory that he visited or through poisoning, has taken social media by storm and has the potential to become the next Charlie Kirk-like conspiracy. I sensed the threat that this poses to Russia, namely as a means of manipulating Trump into further escalating against it by redoubling support for Ukraine, and promptly debunked the narrative here.
What alarmed me the most was that his close advisor Laura Loomer, whose influence over him is so strong that she reportedly got him to fire six National Security Council staffers last year, repeatedly accused Russia of responsibility for Graham’s death. Readers can review her related posts here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. The larger context is her trying to concoct Russiagate 2.0 as explained here, here, and here, which coincides with her suddenly becoming radically pro-Zelensky.
I personally suspected that her newfound personal hatred of Russia for its publicly financed media’s promotion of her nemeses Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson was to blame but then discovered that something much fouler might be afoot. By sheer coincidence, X’s algorithm showed me that Zelensky’s new deputy chief of his office, Sergey Kisilitsa, posted a screenshot of my article debunking the conspiracy theory that Putin killed Graham along with a mocking caption, which readers can review here:
He wrote, “’But I’m not guilty,’ said K. ‘there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.’ ‘That is true’ said the priest ‘but that is how the guilty speak’. (Kafka, The Trial) per posting denials multiple times – kafkaesque.” The obvious innuendo is that my arguments that Putin didn’t kill Graham are supposedly proof that this conspiracy theory is true. Importantly, Kisilitsa also shared his post with three media figures, one of whom is Loomer:
The abovementioned posts can respectively be accessed here and here unless he deletes them. Other than Loomer, the other two media figures are Kateryna Lisunova and Andrij Dobriansky, correspondingly a media advisor for the Ukrainian “NGO” Razom and a Ukrainian-American strategic communicator. Kisilitsa is clearly suggesting that they amplify his mockery of me for challenging the conspiracy theory that Putin killed Graham. The obviously implied goal is to lend false credence to this dangerous claim.
It’s highly unlikely that Kisilitsa randomly stumbled upon my piece debunking this narrative and decided on his own without any coordination with Zelensky’s office whatsoever at all to target me as a result and then encourage top figures within Ukraine’s “global media ecosystem” to emulate what he just did. Zelensky’s office has an interest in manipulating Trump into thinking that Putin killed Graham with the expectation that he’d then further escalate against Russia by redoubling support for Ukraine in revenge.
This means that all those who push this conspiracy theory, including anyone in the broad Alt-Media Community, are Zelensky’s useful idiots. Had Kisilitsa discreetly suggested to top pro-Kiev influencers that they mock those who debunk this conspiracy theory, and importantly didn’t do so himself in public, then it would remain conjecture that Zelensky’s office is playing a role in popularizing this narrative. There’s now no longer any doubt, which discredits not only this claim, but also all those who push it.
