Mike Lee's own spokesman confirmed the call Lee is now denying

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David Frum
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Mike Lee's own spokesman confirmed the call Lee is now denying

As riot raged at Capitol, Trump tried to call senators to overturn election
President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani both mistakenly made calls to Republican Sen. Mike Lee as deadly riots were unfolding at the US Capitol earlier this week, a spokesman for the...
cnn.com
5:38 PM · Feb 10, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/mike-lee-tommy-tuberville-trump-misdialed-capitol-riot/index.html

[iemitsu]

1. Suppose there will be a fired spokesperson tomorrow.

[TwilightZone]

2. The confirmation was more than a month ago.

This has all been public knowledge. Lee knows it and was just grandstanding.

[iemitsu]

3. Ok, thanks.

[Deuxcents]

4. I'm going with "distraction"

And Lee has it down only...Rep Raskin threw it back at him by saying it really doesn’t matter in the scheme of things. I sent Rep Raskin a note today saying I appreciate n respect him. He’s just been great

[Chainfire]

5. I didn't talk to the President on the 6th, and if I did, it was about the weather.

[FSogol]

6. Alleged "Senator" Mike Lee calls himself a liar.

[frazzled]

7. Apparently, Lee is objecting to

it having been said that he overheard or listened in on the conversation. He says that is wrong. I don’t know if it was the Trump call, which was interrupted by the evacuation, or the follow up from Giuliani. If the latter, it was a voice message, quoted below. And that was the gist of the Democrats’s argument—that even in the midst of the carnage, Trump/Giuliani were trying to get Tuberville to gum up the works further.

hours after Rudy Giuliani called for “trial by combat,” after the mob had already breached the building, after one of the insurgents had been killed, hours after Trump had released a video pretending to oppose the violence, possibly even after Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick suffered injuries that would ultimately kill him, Rudy attempted to call Tuberville. He also dialed the number of a different [unidentified] Senator. Rudy left a message suggesting that he expected Tuberville would heed his requests, a message that seemed to suggest the entire process was an attempt to buy President Trump’s disinformation teams a day to put together new false allegations.

Senator Tuberville? Or I should say Coach Tuberville. This is Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer. I’m calling you because I want to discuss with you how they’re trying to rush this hearing and how we need you, our Republican friends, to try to just slow it down so we can get these legislatures to get more information to you. And I know they’re reconvening at 8 tonight, but it … the only strategy we can follow is to object to numerous states and raise issues so that we get ourselves into tomorrow—ideally until the end of tomorrow.

I know McConnell is doing everything he can to rush it, which is kind of a kick in the head because it’s one thing to oppose us, it’s another thing not to give us a fair opportunity to contest it. And he wants to try to get it down to only three states that we contest. But there are 10 states that we contest, not three. So if you could object to every state and, along with a congressman, get a hearing for every state, I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote, particularly after what McConnell did today. It angered them, because they have written letters asking that you guys adjourn and send them back the questionable ones and they’ll fix them up.

So, this phone number, I’m available on all night, and it would be an honor to talk to you. Thank you.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/01/08/investigate-tommy-tubervilles-pre-speech-and-debate-actions/

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8. Powerful indictment on Rudi, I think...

sounds like he asking Tuberville to do a seditious act.

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9. It redounds to Trump

The first call was from Trump, but Tuberville had to cut it off because the Senate was being asked to evacuate. The follow-up came from Rudy. Same thing ... he was calling on behalf of Trump.

[BlueIdaho]

10. Lee is scared shitless Trump will stop calling him. nt.

[lapucelle]

11. I think this is the relavent part of the presentation.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4945163/user-clip-mike-lees-objection