State of play: Lee's posts, which baselessly ascribed leftist motives to the attacks on Minnesota Democrats, were only the latest to attract scrutiny of his far-right online profile — especially under his personal @BasedMikeLee account on X.

Deluged with criticism over social media posts that spread misinformation in the aftermath of the shootings of two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses, Utah Sen. Mike Lee deleted a handful of his online comments — but not all.

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,