Last week, in a telephone town hall, Sen. Mike Lee discussed the actions of the president of the United States.
Lee said that the president can ask foreign countries for help in investigations. This response was intentionally misleading. Lee failed to mention that neither Joe Biden nor his son is under investigation. He did not mention that Trump held back $400 million of military funding from Ukraine that had been congressionally approved before the phone call. And he did not mention that Trump told the Ukrainian president that in order to receive the funding he would need to “do him a favor” and then directed him to get in touch with his personal lawyer.
Such a response from Lee is purposefully misleading. When asked why other Republicans are not speaking up, Sen. Mitt Romney said, “I think it’s very natural for people to look at circumstances and see them in the light that’s most amenable to their maintaining power, and doing things to preserve that power.”
From this, I can only draw the conclusion that Lee is less concerned with doing what is right and more concerned with doing what helps him maintain his own position of power. That is very disappointing.
Lyndsey Jarman, Saratoga Springs