Mike Lee Deletes Controversial Posts About Minnesota Democrat Shootings, Amid GOP Senator's Criticism

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Source: MEDIAite

Jun 17th, 2025, 2:03 pm


Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) deleted a pair of highly controversial X posts on Tuesday that made light of the targeted shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers.

On Sunday, Lee took to X with two posts in reference to the shootings of State Rep. Melissa Hortman and State Sen. John Hoffman at their homes. Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, were shot and killed while Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, were treated at a hospital for gunshot wounds. Shooting suspect Vance Boelter is now in police custody after a massive manhunt over the weekend.

“This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way,” Lee wrote in one post that included an alleged image of Boelter in tactical gear. Authorities say the shooting suspect posed as a cop to gain entry into the homes of the Democratic lawmakers.


Screenshot via X/Twitter

In a second post, Lee took aim at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D). “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” he wrote, likely referring to Boelter being appointed to an advisory board in 2019 under Walz’s administration.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/mike-lee-deletes-controversial-posts-about-minnesota-democrat-shootings-amid-gop-senators-criticism/

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The evil and craven miscreant kept those up until today.

[tulipsandroses]

1. People of Utah should be demanding his resignation. This is beyond disgusting

Resign Now!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Mike Lee deletes posts about Minnesota lawmaker shootings after blowback

Mike Lee needs to apologize or resign

Link to tweet

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5355192-mike-lee-posts-minnesota-shootings/

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Tuesday deleted social media posts he made blaming the left for the fatal shooting of a Minnesota state legislator.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the posts that seemingly made light of the shootings that killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband and wounded state Sen. John Hoffman (D) and his wife were gone from the Utah Republican’s @BasedMikeLee account.

One post from over the weekend had dubbed the killing the “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” an apparent reference to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), while the other said that: “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way.”

The move came after intense blowback from Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) publicly called on Lee to take down the posts and urged President Trump and Republicans to do the same, arguing that Lee might listen to them.

“I asked him to do it yesterday,” Schumer said at a morning press conference, calling the posts “disgusting.”

On Monday, Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), a friend of Hortman’s, confronted Lee prior to a Senate GOP conference meeting about the party’s massive tax bill. She told reporters that she wanted him to hear from her directly “about how painful that was and how brutal that was to see that on what was just a horrible, brutal weekend.”

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

[Jimmy76]

3. needs to be slapped

The ugly childish mentality he displayed can be deleted, but won't be forgiven or forgotten, not by many, and definitely not by me.
The maga people won't change, we are not going to change, so this is no longer the United States, it is 50 states, more than half of which seem to think they are the only "real" merkins, the rest are "other", and they are wanting them (US) gone.
I am not going away until it's all over for my life, so these people are going to need to calm the fork down and attempt to live and let live. That is the fond hope, but I am not overly optomistic. Thank heavens I was born in California, and will remain there.

[Prairie Gates]

4. "Amid GOP Senator's Criticism"

Which GOP Senator?

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Doesn't undo or unsay it

It's what he believes. Unless the people of Utah choose better - I have to think that it is what THEY believe too. I mean - they voted for the bastard right?

[SergeStorms]

6. The damage has already been done......

and deleting the posts will not undo it. These people have no souls.

[IzzaNuDay]

9. Yup, the Internet is 4-ever!

millions have probably saved screenshots of his tweets. Can’t squeeze that toothpaste back into the tube!

[Mz Pip]

7. Too little, too late

That crap never should’ve been posted in the first place. We expect garbage like that from the MAGA keyboard warrior lowlifes. A sitting Senator should know better.

Interesting observations about Lee today on Nicolle Wallace's show. Apparently, Lee goes by Based Mike Lee on X, not Senator Mike Lee. He’s now just drinking the kool aid, he’s swimming in it.

[Paladin]

8. Those filthy comments need to follow him around for the rest of his miserable life.

Everybody: do your part to see that it happens. Some things are just beyond forgiveness.