US EditionMike Lee deletes posts about Minnesota lawmaker shootings after blowback
- Senator Mike Lee deleted controversial posts on June 17, 2025, after criticizing the assassination of Minnesota lawmakers on social media.
- The posts, which mocked the shootings and linked the suspect to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, prompted backlash and confrontation by Senator Tina Smith.
- Smith described Lee's rhetoric as brutal and cruel, emphasizing that many spent a fearful weekend locked in their homes due to the targeted violence.
- Lee’s office received an email criticizing the use of his Senate platform to post jokes about the murders, asking if compounding grief was considered success.
- The incident underscored rising concerns about political violence and the responsibility of public figures to avoid incendiary rhetoric amid a tense national climate.
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'Bar is so freaking low': MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace slams GOP over loss of decency
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) prompted a conversation on MSNBC about the GOP's dehumanization of people they oppose. On Tuesday, Lee deleted posts on X that joked about the assassination of one Democratic official and her husband and the attempted assassination of another lawmaker in Minnesota over the weekend. Lee faced backlash for days, with U.S. Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) confronting him to explain that those who were killed were real people. Sarah Longw…
Facing backlash, Mike Lee deletes some — but not all — of his misleading posts on Minnesota shootings
Deluged with criticism over social media posts that spread misinformation in the aftermath of the shootings of two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses, Utah Sen. Mike Lee deleted a handful of his online comments — but not all.
Backlash against Mike Lee’s tasteless tweets reminds us that online cruelty has a real-world impact
It’s amazing how far a firebrand politician has to step over the line of decency in 2025 to prove that such a line even exists anymore. By any metric, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah sprinted past that line over the weekend, with a deeply distasteful, macabre string of tweets about a political assassination in Minnesota. Now, he’s experiencing something vanishingly rare in modern American politics: sustained, real-world blowback for something he wrot…
Sen. Mike Lee deletes social media posts about the Minnesota shootings after facing criticism
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, removed posts on his personal X account about Saturday's fatal attack on a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband after he faced fierce backlash from Democrats.Sen.
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