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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.
Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in their home in what officials are calling a politically-motivated assassination. Republican Senator Mike Lee is facing fierce criticism after baselessly blaming the assassination on the far left.
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 Monday evening without acknowledging the questions.
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,
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Sen. Mike Lee's unfounded claims on social media about the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker have angered his U.S. Senate colleague from the state.
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ABC4 Utah on MSNUtah Sen. Mike Lee on MN lawmaker killings: ‘This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way’Utah’s senior Senator, Mike Lee took to X over the weekend to comment on the killings of a Minnesota state senator and her husband and the shootings of two other
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Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah has come under heavy fire following comments made in the wake of fatal shootings in Minnesota. On 15 June, Lee described the suspect, 57-year-old Vance Boelter, as a 'Marxist' in a post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter),
"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.