Mike Lee’s posts about the Minnesota shootings incensed fellow senators. They refused to let it go
June 21, 2025
Sen. Mike Lee posts thousands of times, often late at night, about politics. Colleagues have grown accustomed to the Utah Republican’s online persona, mostly brushing it off. That is, until this past week, after his posts about the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband incensed fellow senators. Lee has since deleted the posts but has yet to apologize. Minnesota’s two Democratic senators confronted Lee last week, and one of them, Tina Smith, said he seemed “surprised” to be called out. The backlash came at a tense moment in a bitterly divided Senate.
