Lee was dragged online for being "cowardly" after his conversation with Smith. One expert weighs in on the Minnesota Democrat's decision to confront him.

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.

The Utah senator has deleted comments made after a far-right gunman killed one Minnesota lawmaker and wounded another. But he hasn’t apologized.

After indicating that he would reintroduce a provision to the “big beautiful” budget bill that would approve the sale of public lands, the text of the Energy and Natural Resources

“Based” Mike Lee, that is. The Republican senator created a second account on Twitter in July 2022, in addition to his official account, @SenMikeLee. @BasedMikeLee is where the senator vents his spleen and unleashes his id, as though revealing a Jekyll-and-Hyde split personality.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) harshly condemned a North Carolina state lawmaker’s photo of a “No Kings” rally, which showed someone carrying a prop of a beheaded President Donald Trump. Dozens of “No Kings” rallies were held across the nation on Saturday to protest the president,

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their residence early Saturday, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were shot multiple times in their nearby home, The Associated Press reported.