{"id":10380,"date":"2025-06-18T01:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/insensitive-to-say-the-least-mike-lee-deletes-minnesota-posts-amid-gop-criticism-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T01:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:21:28","slug":"insensitive-to-say-the-least-mike-lee-deletes-minnesota-posts-amid-gop-criticism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/insensitive-to-say-the-least-mike-lee-deletes-minnesota-posts-amid-gop-criticism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Insensitive, to say the least&#8217;: Mike Lee deletes Minnesota posts amid GOP criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Sen. Mike Lee, amid widespread outrage, has deleted a pair of social media posts associating the deadly Minnesota shootings last weekend with &#8220;Marxists&rdquo; and the state&#8217;s Democratic governor. The move to remove the X posts came amid criticism from a Republican colleague Tuesday. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota told reporters said Lee&#8217;s decision to comment online over the weekend &#8220;seems insensitive&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/06\/17\/congress\/kevin-cramer-blasts-mike-lee-posts-00410547\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah Sen. Mike Lee, amid widespread outrage, has deleted a pair of social media posts associating the deadly Minnesota shootings last weekend with &#8220;Marxists&rdquo; and the state&#8217;s Democratic governor. The move to remove the X posts came amid criticism from a Republican colleague Tuesday. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota told reporters said Lee&#8217;s decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}