The View Hosts Shred Sen. Mike Lee Over X Posts on MN Political Shootings: ‘Any Other Job, You’d Be Fired Instantly’
The View hosts took a strong stance against political violence on Monday’s show — and called out Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) by name — as they agonized over the targeted shootings of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses.
Sara Haines blamed “slow dehumanization” for the shootings, and said anyone who wasn’t first thinking of the victims instead of political affiliation is “part of the problem.”
“You say there’s something happening here, it’s like a slow dehumanization of the other,” she said. “Whatever that other is to someone. In this instance, it’s a political division. And I think people need to check in with themselves. When they hear someone is attacked in their house, if their first response is not feeling gutted and heartbroken without any identifiers, I don’t need to know anything, if that was not your first response, you are part of the problem.”
She then called out Lee by name for mean-spirited social media posts on his @BasedMikeLee account in the hours following the shooting.
(X screenshot)
(X screenshot)
“And elected officials, speaking of them, you’ve got Mike Lee out of Utah who is either mocking what happened here when he tweets things like, ‘This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way,’ or ‘Nightmare on Walz Street,'” she said. “This was within hours of the loss of life and the brutal attack in these people’s homes. In any other job, you would be fired instantly. I don’t know what is wrong with our government that someone is not immediately removed or punished.”
When it was Whoopi Goldberg’s turn to address the issue, she didn’t hold back, prefacing her statement by saying, “I’m not going to pull my punches here”:
I’m putting this in you hands. I’m putting this in the hands of the people who are supposed to be representing us. If you are not going to represent us, then don’t run for office because this is not the way to do it … If your first response is not, ‘What the hell is going on?’ then you should not be running for anything.
When Sunny Hostin asked if Lee had taken the tweet down, she was left stunned as she was told it was still pinned to the top of his account.
Lee did eventually unpin the X post, but the original posts remain.
He has, however, taken a different approach to the shootings on his @SenMikeLee account.
“These hateful attacks have no place in Utah, Minnesota, or anywhere in America,” he wrote. “Please join me in condemning this senseless violence, and praying for the victims and their families.”
Watch above via ABC.
