Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered

WASHINGTON—After being confronted about social media posts that blamed the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers on the far left, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) stressed Tuesday that he would have said the same thing if his own family had been savagely murdered. “Democrats can say what they want about me, but I would have absolutely called the shooter a Marxist and made tasteless digs at Gov. Walz had my loved ones recently been killed in cold blood,” said Lee, adding that if his wife and and children had been shot multiple times, he wouldn’t have hesitated to post photos of the incident and refer to it as a “Nightmare on Walz Street.” “To anyone offended by this, let me just say that had this happened to my family, I would have done everything in my power to mock them and use their deaths to advance my political agenda. Had I been shot, I would have used my last breaths to fan the flame and keep inciting violence. But that’s just the kind of man I am.” Lee confirmed that had Elon Musk used his family’s brutal murders to spread lies, he would have still posted a reply reading, “Fact check: TRUE.”