Sen. Mike Lee found time Tuesday to delete social media posts blaming liberals for the fatal shooting of a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota—but not to apologize for them. Gone from the Utah Republican’s @BasedMikeLee account was his post calling the killing a “Nightmare on Waltz Street” and his other one reading,

Political scientist John Pitney called the independent Arizona senator's amendment to the omnibus package "a Christmas present in the form of an escape hatch."

“Based” Mike Lee, that is. The Republican senator created a second account on Twitter in July 2022, in addition to his official account, @SenMikeLee. @BasedMikeLee is where the senator vents his spleen and unleashes his id, as though revealing a Jekyll-and-Hyde split personality.

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell condemned the staff of GOP Sen. Mike Lee for sticking with him after the Utah lawmaker tried to justify the alleged Minnesota gunman’s attack on Democratic lawmakers. Days after Lee shared two X posts making light of the shooting—one that said alleged shooter Vance Boelter’s killing of state Rep.