Mike Lee Draws Outrage for Posts About Killings

“Scarcely 24 hours after a Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota was assassinated in her home, Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, posted a pair of politically charged messages mocking the attack,” the New York Times reports.

Said Lee: “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way.”

He later added: “Nightmare on Walz Street.”

“By the afternoon, amid outraged responses to his postings, Mr. Lee issued a very different message on his official Senate account in which he hit all of the sober notes one would expect from an elected official reacting to a political assassination.”