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.

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 state lawmakers, saying, “this is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way” accompanied by a picture of the suspect,

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,

In an interview with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Klobuchar says Lee’s tweets make light of the fatal shooting.. including one calling the situation a “Nightmare on Waltz Street” she says she plans to confront him directly about the issue.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee has taken a similar approach with his account on X (formerly Twitter) by using his @BasedMikeLee account not to block legislation but, his supporters say, to disrupt the stodgy ...

Utah Sen. Mike Lee — the party's favorite product of the caucus system since his 2010 upset — took the stage to endorse his longtime friend, Rob Axson, for reelection as GOP chairman.

Senators quietly took their spots in their semicircular seating arrangements as Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, banged the gavel against the wooden desk. It was a short business meeting for the Senate ...