The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota’s Democratic governor. He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.

Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in their home in what officials are calling a politically-motivated assassination. Republican Senator Mike Lee is facing fierce criticism after baselessly blaming the assassination on the far left.

Available evidence does not support Sen. Mike Lee’s assertion that Boelter was driven by "Marxist" ideology. People who knew Boelter told news outlets he was politically right-leaning.  Law enforcement officials said all the potential targets Boelter had identified were elected officials and Democrats,

Utah’s senior Senator, Mike Lee took to X over the weekend to comment on the killings of a Minnesota state senator and her husband and the shootings of two other

After Melissa Hortman, a Democrat and former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and her husband were murdered at their home over the weekend, Lee blamed Democrats of all sorts, which i