- January 6th, 2021: In the middle of the Capitol attack, as insurrectionists are storming the building, Donald Trump tries to call Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, but instead, dials Mike Lee and leaves a bizarre voice mail, which in the days that follow, the press get their hands on audio.
- February 13th, 2021: Lee votes to acquit Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, after at one point during the trial, trying to sabotage Democrats’ case against him by claiming their portrayal of his statements on the phone call, and denying it took place when he’d already previously confirmed it.
- March 6th, 2021: Sen. Lee votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he can’t be bothered to care if people need financial assistance during a pandemic.
- May 28th, 2021: Lee votes against the creation of a non-partisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6th attack.
- August 10th, 2021: Mike Lee votes against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- December 14th, 2021: Lee votes against raising the debt ceiling, jeopardizing the United States’ credit rating.
- February 28th, 2022: Mike Lee votes against the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would have established a right to physicians to perform abortions to save their patients’ lives. He then boycotts Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address that night, refusing to even be tested for Covid-19 as required before the proceedings.
- March 30th, 2022: Lee votes against putting the extremely qualified nominee, Judge Kentanji Brown-Jackson, onto the Supreme Court.
- May 25th, 2022: Mike Lee responds to the mass shooting at Uvalde, Texas, by claiming that the real cause of mass shootings in our country was “fatherlessness”. (The shooter at Uvalde lived in a home with a mother and father. So do a majority of mass shooters.)
- May 26th, 2022: Sen. Lee votes against the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022, because at this point, domestic terror is a policy plank of authoritarian Republicans.
- July 27th, 2022: Mike Lee votes against the PACT Act, blocking additional funding towards veterans exposed to “burn pits” while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a vote conducted out of spite that Democrats passed the Act the prior day. Several Republicans are seen shaking hands and fist bumping to celebrate screwing over the vets, while releasing a series of photos of the Senate GOP Caucus filling USO boxes and claiming they “support the military”.
- August 2nd, 2022: After a week of outage after Republicans used the filibuster to block the PACT Act, another vote is held on the bill… Sen. Lee is one of 11 Republicans who vote against it again out of spite.
- February 9th, 2023: During the State of the Union address by President Biden, Mike Lee makes incredulous faces when Biden mentions Republicans are a threat to Social Security, as if he hasn’t been on record to call it “unconstitutional”.
Mike Lee was inexplicably re-elected to a third term in the Senate, surviving an Independent challenge from Evan McMullin, who hit him hard in debates about his seditious activities in and around Jan. 6th, 2021. And yet… Utah voters found that not an issue, and sent a man who offers them nothing, and wants to take away what little the government might do for them back to DC for six more years.
The only way Senator Mike Lee is going to be taken out of office, it seems, is if he’s convicted of seditious conspiracy, and considering in the build-up to January 6th, he was exchanging texts with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows including one on December 8th, 2020 about creating a slate of “fake electors”… that is going to be something Merrick Garland and the Dept. of Justice might take a look at. Also something that should be added into the evidence log? Only a few weeks prior to that, he straight up declared “America is not a democracy” on social media.
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