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GOP senator slammed for disgusting tweets about Minnesota taking pictures

Editorial Board Published June 16, 2025
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Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee is going through a torrent of criticism after he despatched a disturbing tweet in regards to the Minnesota gunman who murdered Democratic state former Home Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shot Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman, and his spouse, Yvette.

On Sunday, as regulation enforcement officers have been trying to find the alleged assassin Vance Boelter, Lee tweeted a picture of Boelter within the rubber masks he wore when he opened fireplace on the lawmakers. In textual content alongside the disturbing picture, Lee wrote, “Nightmare on Waltz Street”—a misspelled reference to Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who was additionally on an inventory of Democratic officers Boelter needed to kill.


The reserving picture, supplied by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Workplace, of alleged assassin Vance Boelter in Inexperienced Isle, Minnesota, on June 16.

An hour earlier, Lee had additionally tweeted one other picture of Boelter within the rubber masks with the textual content, “This is what happens/When Marxists don’t get their way”—a message he was so pleased with he pinned it to the highest of his web page.

Lee despatched the disturbing messages—which attempt to additional the false GOP narrative that’s portray Boelter as a Democrat slightly than the President Donald Trump-supporting, anti-abortion zealot he’s—as different politicians have been calling for politicians to tone down the rhetoric as a way to keep away from encouraging extra radicalized folks to commit violence in opposition to elected officers.

“Today we speak with one voice to express our outrage, grief, and condemnation of this horrible attack on public servants,” your complete Minnesota congressional delegation wrote in a joint bipartisan assertion. “There is no place in our democracy for politically-motivated violence.”

Criticism of Lee’s response was swift.

“When there’s political violence in western democracies it’s traditionally treated as a somber event for everyone to come together. That’s disappeared. The victims were gunned down just over a day ago and a US Senator is mocking the event and hinting at a deranged conspiracy,” unbiased journalist Lee Fang wrote in a submit on X.

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Even Republicans condemned Lee for his horrifying response to the taking pictures.

“What happened to Mike Lee? He went from the Thinking Man’s Conservative to fringe-internet-troll-comma-US-Senator in a matter of just a few years,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration staffer, wrote on X. “Two parents are dead. Stop and have some humanity.”

Finally, it’s sick the lengths Republicans are going—together with a sitting U.S. senator—to gin up a false narrative absolving the Republican Get together of accountability in radicalizing Individuals who commit violence within the identify of furthering their right-wing agenda. If something, it’s a inform that they might really feel guilt as a result of they don’t wish to be related to the type of monsters they’ve created, however that they’re too irresponsible to simply accept that they’re at fault for inflicting the local weather that results in political violence. 

On the finish of the day, nonetheless, that is what occurs when somebody like Trump is the chief of a political get together.

Trump, for his half, has but to name Walz after the horrific incident, and even attacked Walz when commenting on the taking pictures.

The ethical rot begins on the high. 

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