What Sen. Mike Lee told me about Trump's call the day of the Capitol riot The call became a controv

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I read that Mike Lee was upset about being misquoted.

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What Sen. Mike Lee told me about Trump’s call the day of the Capitol riot
The call became a controversial part of the impeachment trial on Wednesday.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/02/11/what-sen-mike-lee-told-me/

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, arrive ahead of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Washington.



By Bryan Schott


| Feb. 10, 2021, 8:09 p.m. | Updated: 8:12 p.m.


On the evening of Jan. 6, after the rioters were cleared out of the U.S. Capitol and Congress got back to the work of counting the Electoral College votes, Sen. Mike Lee exchanging some text messages with me, a journalist with The Salt Lake Tribune.
After conversing about the day’s events, which I won’t detail here as I agreed to keep them off the record, Lee related the story of how then-President Donald Trump mistakenly called his phone thinking it belonged to Tommy Tuberville, the newly-elected senator from Alabama .
Lee agreed to let me publish the story, which I initially broke in my newsletter “The Rundown” the following morning. After my reporting, the story was picked up by several other news outlets.
On Wednesday night during the second impeachment trial of Trump, Lee strenuously objected to House impeachment managers referring to other reporting that said Lee overheard Trump telling Tuberville to delay the certification of the Electoral College votes by objecting.
In my reporting, Lee did not say he overheard the former president’s conversation with Sen. Tuberville, although he did tell me the call lasted for several minutes............................

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1. Rt.. TY! No doubt the Treasonous

SUPID MF was "delighted"

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2. Correct. Journalist is saying "I did not report .."

Lee making the statements used in today's hearing. I think that is solid journalism.

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