Mike Lee Dragged for Denying Story About Trump Call He Previously Confirmed

[TomCADem]

Source: The Wrap

While nearly all of Wednesday's impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump involved the House impeachment managers making their case against Trump, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah made himself the focus at the very end when he tried to claim a story about Trump accidentally calling him while trying to reach Tommy Tuberville is not true.

There are a few problems with this, chief among them being that he's already on the record confirming the Trump story to Deseret News.

"Statements were attributed to me moments ago by the House impeachment managers," Lee complained breathlessly at the end of the day's session. "Statements relating to the content of conversations between a phone call involving President Trump and Senator Tuberville were not made by me, they're not accurate, and they're contrary to fact."

He didn't go into further detail, but it's not clear what specifically he was objecting to. It stands to reason that if the report that the House managers were quoting from was inaccurate, Lee would have objected to that report when it was published a month ago.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/mike-lee-dragged-for-denying-story-about-trump-call-he-previously-confirmed/ar-BB1dA3O3?ocid=msedgntp

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It seems that Mike Lee is now claiming that his hometown newspaper is lying and misquoting him.

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/1/7/22218897/donald-trump-mike-lee-misdial-capitol-siege-congress-electoral-insurrection-moore-curtis-stewart

Caller ID showed the call originated from the White House. Lee thought it might be national security adviser Robert O’Brien, with whom he’d been playing phone tag on an unrelated issue. It wasn’t O’Brien. It was President Donald Trump.

“How’s it going, Tommy?” the president asked. Taken a little aback, Lee said this isn’t Tommy.

“Well, who is this? Trump asked. “It’s Mike Lee,” the senator replied. “Oh, hi Mike. I called Tommy.”

Lee told the Deseret News he realized Trump was trying to call Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the newly elected Republican from Alabama and former Auburn University football coach. Lee walked his phone over to Tuberville who was talking to some colleagues.

[dem4decades]

1. How can Mitt even talk to that guy. Lee is a coward, Mitt at least stands on principal.

[yellowdogintexas]

2. I sure hope Romney is whipping votes under the radar

He is probably the only one who could do it.

[ananda]

4. Well, he WAS almost murdered.

You'd think he'd be motivated FOR conviction!

But I tell you what, so should a lot of Reeps, and yet...

[intrepidity]

3. The dispute is over the "content"

"Statements relating to the content of conversations..." (snip)

"He didn't go into further detail, but it's not clear what specifically he was objecting to."

Poor reporting, imho.

He was clearly objecting to the notion that he is the source for THE CONTENT of the call, not that it happened.

[pnwmom]

5. He did more than that. On Jan 7th, he shared the whole story with the Salt Lake Tribune.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215089531