Lee’s Defense For Damning Texts: Me And Meadows Are Old Pals

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) finally weighed in on his damning text messages to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the weeks leading up to the deadly Capitol insurrection last year.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1413813

Mike Lee has been caught lying to the news media and his constituents. Mike Lee is unAmerican and failed to uphold his oath of office. Mike Lee is a traitor, he should be tried and executed.

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I note that this interview seems to omit any mention of how Lee said he was working 14 hours a day to overturn the election. That seems to argue against his “Meadows is an old friend” argument, doesn’t it?

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I need to find my hip boots from that load of BS from a so call constitutional scholar. As to Mittens, nice try to cover up the damage, but my cat buries shit a whole lot better.

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It’s fine to go after Lee, because maybe there’s more he’s not telling.

BUT what about Hawley, who actually voted NOT to certify the election. What can be done about Hawley, Cruz and others?

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Fuck you and your duplicitous behavior, Mike.

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" Lee has seemed reluctant to respond to the revelations, with the Utah Republican’s staffers physically blocking a Salt Lake Tribune reporter who attempted to press Lee about his texts during a local county GOP convention in his home state on Tuesday."

Lee ran from that reporter faster than Omicron spread at the Provo Red Lobster.

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“It was just old-boy gym talk,” Lee explained.

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So Lee was like a child playing with a loaded gun. He didn’t know Meadows would go off and tell Trump to steal the election with Powell’s and Eastman’s help. It’s all a big misunderstanding. He was just joshing.

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I appreciate your point, but …Lee actually wrote stuff down, for one thing.

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“From what I’ve seen so far, I don’t think Sen. Lee has done anything illegal. Anything else is for him to respond to,” Romney told reporters on Wednesday.

While Mike struggles to cover his ass, Mittens says he has less than half a blanket to spare for him.

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Believe it or not, Lee makes me think of Saturday Mornings back in the Day:

The are more cartoons to come!!

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“He knows that when I said things like ‘Tell me what we ought to be saying,’ what I was just trying to figure out was ‘What is your message?’ He knows me well enough to know that that doesn’t mean I will do your bidding, whatever it is,” Lee told Deseret News.

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Faster than:

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“Are you tired of running after that combative patient who apparently was a marathon runner in a previous life?”

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Lee ran away more as an expression of needing more time to answer unanswerable** questions than anything else.

My brother and I used to do the same thing when we were in trouble with our parents.

But both of us stopped having to do that when we grew up and moved into our own residences.

** “unanswerable”=“I’m-lying-and-I-should-have-known-better”

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But his constituents knew that when he voted for him, Why? He has an “R” next to his name.

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