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

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.

Learn more about the Republican lawmaker from Utah under fire for his response to the assassination of Democratic lawmakers on social media.

The original video showed a protester carrying a prop that featured a beheaded person resembling Trump and a banner displaying a guillotine.

If there was a telling recent moment when it comes to how ugly our political discourse has become, it might well have been the brutal 2022 hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul.

Republican Senator Mike Lee faced ridicule for calling the suspect of fatal shootings in Minnesota a “Marxist.” “This is what happens ... When Marxists don’t get their way,” the Utah senator captioned a photo of alleged gunman Vance Boelter wearing a latex face mask.