#MikeLee

William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-06-17

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded Lee remove the posts and apologize, calling the posts 'reckless and beneath the dignity of his office,' according to Politico.

'For a senator to fan the flames of division with falsities while the killer was still on the loose is deeply irresponsible,' Schumer said."

#Trump #VanceBoelter #violence #Republicans #MikeLee #Utah
/15

William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-06-17

"In a scathing letter to Lee’s staff Monday, [MN Sen. Tina] Smith’s deputy chief of staff, Ed Shelleby, said Lee had 'exploited the murder of a lifetime public servant and her husband to post some sick burns about Democrats.'

'Did you see this as an excellent opportunity to get likes and retweet[s]?,' Shelleby asked. 'Have you absolutely no conscience? No decency?'”

~ Emily Anderson Stern and Robert Gehrke

#Trump #VanceBoelter #Republicans #MikeLee #Utah
/14

sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/

William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-06-17

"Fact check: Did suspect in Minnesota shootings have close ties to Gov. Tim Walz? No.

The governor reappointed Boelter to an advisory board in 2019, but one member says the board is bipartisan. A friend of Boelter’s called him a strong supporter of President Donald Trump."

~ Walter Orenstein

#Trump #VanceBoelter #violence #Republicans #MikeLee #Utah
/13

startribune.com/fact-check-did

William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-06-17

"Can we understand what motivated Senator Mike Lee to abandon his sense of decency, morality, religious principles, and empathy as a father and husband?

No, we can’t. Trying to understand Senator Mike Lee is a waste of time. There is no explaining, rationalizing, or excusing Senator Lee’s grotesque behavior. Instead, we should condemn Lee and everyone who fails to condemn him—and then move on."

#Trump #VanceBoelter #violence #Republicans #MikeLee #Utah
/12

William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-06-17

"Following the horrific political killings and attempted assassinations in Minnesota, Senator Mike Lee posted a series of tweets that mocked the killings and falsely claimed that the perpetrator was a 'Marxist' Democrat.

I won’t repeat Senator Lee’s cruel posts, but they have earned him more than the usual share of condemnation, although not a word has been heard from his fellow congressional Republicans."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #VanceBoelter #MikeLee #Utah
/11

roberthubbell.substack.com/p/t

William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-06-17

"After Lee pinned one of his disturbing tweets to the top of his social media timeline, Tim Miller of The Bulwark wrote: 'This is less of a political matter than a sign of deep mental illness.'

As of this afternoon, Trump had not called Walz, calling him 'a terrible governor' and 'a grossly incompetent person.'”

#Trump #VanceBoelter #violence #Republicans #MikeLee #Utah
/10

William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-06-17

"Emily Anderson Stern and Robert Gehrke of the Salt Lake Tribune called out Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) for his behavior in the aftermath of the shootings. Lee joked about the killings and falsely blamed the violence on his political opponents, tying the shooting to Minnesota governor Tim Walz. ...

Of Lee’s behavior, influencer George Takei wrote: 'Utah voters: Are these really your values? Mike Lee is the best you can do?'”

#Trump #VanceBoelter #violence #Republicans #MikeLee #Utah
/9

William Lindsey :toad:wdlindsy@toad.social
2025-06-17

"MAGA loyalists have continued to radicalize in the wake of the shootings, spreading disinformation that blamed the violence on Democrats or joking about the event. Walker Orenstein of the Minnesota Star Tribune debunked the disinformation spread by MAGA loyalists, noting that Boelter was not close to Walz, who simply okayed his reappointment to a bipartisan board that then-governor Mark Dayton had put him on in 2016."

#Trump #VanceBoelter #violence #Republicans #MikeLee #Utah
/8

2025-06-17

Lee muuten näyttääkin ihan Jani Mäkelältä ja käytöstavat on yhtä olemattomat. #minnesota #mikelee #MAGATerrorism

Mike Lee Mocks Deadly Minnesota Shootings On X - Comic Sands
comicsands.com/mike-lee-minnes

2025-06-17

…“This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” #MikeLee wrote Sunday on his personal account on the social platform X.

Shortly after, he commented, “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” referring to #Minnesota Gov. #TimWalz (D), alongside a photo of the suspected shooter.

The 2 remarks were condemned by numerous #Democrats. Senate Minority Whip #DickDurbin (D-IL) called Lee’s remarks “beyond dangerous” & “absolutely unacceptable.”

#PoliticalViolence #MelissaHortman #ethics

2025-06-17

“I think too often in the #Senate we talk to each other through one another & I wanted him to hear it from me directly,” she said.

#TinaSmith said it was “hard for me to characterize exactly what he said. He didn’t say a lot, frankly,” but added that #MikeLee “seemed a little surprised to be confronted.”

Lee angered #Democrats when he pinned blame on them after #MelissaHortman, a Democrat & fmr Speaker of the #Minnesota House, & her husband were killed over the weekend at their home.

2025-06-17

She emerged a minute later talking to Lee in an adjacent hallway. The 2 spoke for a couple of minutes before the #Minnesota #Democrat emerged.

“Let me gather myself,” #TinaSmith said as she left, declining to comment initially.

She eventually told reporters she wanted #MikeLee to hear from her directly “about how painful that was & how brutal that was to see that on what was just a horrible, brutal weekend.”

#PoliticalViolence #MelissaHortman #ethics

Senator Tina Smith seen speaking to Senator Mike Lee
2025-06-17

Sen #TinaSmith (D-MN) on Monday confronted Sen #MikeLee (R-Utah) over of series of comments he made blaming #Democrats for the fatal #shooting of a #Minnesota state lawmaker & her spouse.

Shortly after the #Senate began its Monday evening vote, Smith was seen walking into a conference room where #Republicans were about to hold a meeting to discuss the text the Finance Cmte had just unveiled for the party’s massive tax bill.

#PoliticalViolence #MelissaHortman #ethics
thehill.com/homenews/senate/53

OUR COMMON GROUNDJaniceOCG@mstdn.social
2025-06-17

Mike Lee's phone numbers:

Ogden 801-392-9633
Salt Lake City 801-524-5933
St. George 435-628-5514
Vernal 435-503-9335
DC 202-224-5444

Do feel free to call him and inform him that he should resign or face the furor. #MikeLee
Perhaps his entire congregation and family should be briefed about the kind of real immoral goon he is.

politico.com/live-updates/2025

2025-06-17

#boycottUtah #mikelee #scumbag #sickfuck #MAGA
Mike Lee is a sick, demented scumbag. Democrats, independants and any decent folk should boycott Utah where that sick fuck is a senator.
The GOP Senator was Slammed for 'Joking' About Minnesota Assassination That Killed Top State Democrat: 'Show Some Respect'
"Nightmare on Waltz [sic] Street," the lawmaker posted, making a reference to the state's governor Tim Walz

Flipboard News DeskNewsDesk@flipboard.social
2025-06-16

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) has come under fire for comments he made on social media blaming Democrats for the murder of a Minnesota state lawmaker. The senator posted a surveillance photo of suspected shooter Vance Luther Boelter on X with the captions: "This is what happens When Marxists don't get their way," and "Nightmare on Waltz Street," an incorrectly spelled reference to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D). Right-wing politicians and pundits have speculated that Boelter had Democratic ties because was once appointed by Walz to a civilian economic board. The alleged shooter's hit list targeted Democratic officials. His friends say he holds deeply conservative religious and political views, and that he is a President Trump supporter who would be offended to be described as a Democrat. Here's more from @AxiosNews.

flip.it/GKjNvd

#MinnesotaShootings #MikeLee #SenatorMikeLee #VanceLutherBoelter #USPolitics #USSenate #News

Democracy Matters :verified:DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social
2025-06-16

Mike Lee is a traitor. We know this. Now, let’s do something about it. Utah: are you awake out there?

SEN. MIKE LEE (R-UT) | DEMOCRACY REPORT CARD accountability.gop/profile/sen

#MikeLee #Utah #SenMikeLee #TraitorMikeLee #IndictMikeLee #GOPRussians #GOPTraitors

2025-06-16
officerripleyofficerripley
2025-06-16

Can't somebody please shut Mike Lee up already?

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