Sen. Mike Lee faces backlash
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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.
Swarmed by reporters asking him about controversial social media posts appearing to blame the shooting of two Minnesota state lawmakers on the political left, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) kept walking to his car on Monday evening.
Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota confronted GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah at the Capitol Monday over a social media post on the Minnesota lawmaker shooting.
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Mediaite on MSNWATCH: Mike Lee Goes Stone Cold Silent, Flees from Reporter Pressing Him Over MN Shooting PostsMike Lee refused to answer questions about his controversial X posts making light of the targeted shooting of lawmakers and their spouses in Minnesota. The post WATCH: Mike Lee Goes Stone Cold Silent,
The related reaction from some in the party to the lawmaker shootings in Minnesota over the weekend brought these same concerns to the fore. Though he was hardly alone, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah responded to the slayings in an especially ugly way ...
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The Utah senator received national backlash following two posts on X that tied the alleged shooter to the Democratic Party.
Sen. Mike Lee’s evidence-free conspiracy theory that the MN shooter was a ‘Marxist’ is Pants on Fire
Available evidence does not support Sen. Mike Lee’s assertion that Boelter was driven by "Marxist" ideology. People who knew Boelter told news outlets he was politically right-leaning. Law enforcement officials said all the potential targets Boelter had identified were elected officials and Democrats,
Mike Lee (R-Utah) is facing scrutiny over new social media posts tied to the Minnesota suspect in the deadly shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers over the weekend. While the man suspected of killing a lawmaker and wounding another remained on the run,