Sen. Mike Lee Backtracks
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President Donald Trump unexpectedly departed the Group of Seven summit yesterday and said he was heading back to Washington to deal with conflicts in the Middle East.
The Utah Republican tried to link the Minnesota shooter to liberals despite evidence showing the suspect’s conservative views.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) deleted his controversial posts about the Minnesota shooting over the weekend after multiple colleagues confronted him and asked him to delete them. On Sunday, Lee posted, “This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way,
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Utah, removed posts on his personal X account about Saturday's fatal attack on a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband after facing fierce backlash from Democrats about the postings
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell condemned the staff of GOP Sen. Mike Lee for sticking with him after the Utah lawmaker tried to justify the alleged Minnesota gunman’s attack on Democratic lawmakers. Days after Lee shared two X posts making light of the shooting—one that said alleged shooter Vance Boelter’s killing of state Rep.
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Politicians in both parties had criticized remarks by the Utah senator, saying that his political rhetoric made light of tragedy.
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) confronts Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) about his inflammatory social media posts following the shootings in Minnesota over the weekend. NBC News Senior National Political Reporter Sahil Kapur explains what led up to Sen.
Sen. Mike Lee deleted his controversial social media posts on the assassination of a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker after facing backlash.
Sen. Lee was confronted by his Senate colleagues, who said they told the Utah senator the posts were offensive.
"I wanted him to know how much pain that caused me and the other people in my state," Democratic Sen. Tina Smith said, referring to GOP Sen. Mike Lee.
“Based” Mike Lee, that is. The Republican senator created a second account on Twitter in July 2022, in addition to his official account, @SenMikeLee. @BasedMikeLee is where the senator vents his spleen and unleashes his id, as though revealing a Jekyll-and-Hyde split personality.