Tina Smith says she confronted Mike Lee over ‘cruel’ social media posts on the Minnesota shootings
Washington-Sinator Tina Smith, Die Min, said that she faced Republican Senator Mike Li from Utah on social media positions about Suspect That was killed Minnesota project And her husband.
Smith said she faced me after “Qassi” Sunday postsWhere he included a picture of the suspect books“This is what happens when Marxists do not go on their way.”
“I wanted him to know how much pain caused me and other people in my state and I think all over the country, who believed this was a brutal attack,” Smith told reporters in the Capitol.
She added that I need to hear it “directly” and think about “the effect of his actions.”
Smith said: “I do not know if the Senator was perfectly thought of what it was, you have to ask him, but I needed him to hear me directly what the effect I think was his harsh statement on me, his colleague.”
The gunman, who shot Democrat Melissa Hortmann and her husband, Mark, and Democratic Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Evit, were shot early on Saturday. Vans PowlterThe suspect, was arrested on Sunday night.
The authorities described Hortman’s killing as a “political assassination”. The largest federal public prosecutor in Minnesota said to reporters The notebooks in the Boelter included more than 45 names of elected federal officials. numerous Democrats in Congress They said that their names were on the list.
Lee publications raised condemnation from other Democrats, including Senate minority leader Chuck SchumerAnd dn.y. , And Senator Amy Klopuwshar, Die Men.
When asked about NBC News about the confrontation with Smith, he refused me to answer, and one of the assistants tried to protect him from the cameras leaving the Capitol.
In an email to the Lee office after the confrontation, one of Smith’s senior assistants detonated him and his employees to use “the great power of the US Senate Office in the United States to collect people’s sadness” and cause “additional pain … on an indescribable weekend.”
“Is this the way your team measures success? Using the American Senator’s Office to publish not only a series of jokes about the assassination – is a successful working day in Team Lee?” Ed Shelby, Deputy Chief of Staff Smith, wrote in the email, which was shared by the Senator’s Office with NBC News.
Shelbei went to the events on Saturday, accusing me and his office, “Take advantage of the killing of a public employee and her husband to publish some sick burns about the Democrats.”
“I pray to God that none of you is going through anything like that. I pray to God to start the Senator for me and your office in seeing the people who work with them in this building as colleagues and human beings. I pray to God that God forbid, you find yourselves to deal with anything similar, you find yourselves on the recipient of the kind of grace and sympathy for the Senator.
