In June 2016, Sen. Mike Lee was opposed to Donald Trump’s candidacy for president. As he told Steve Malzberg in a telephone interview: “We can get into the fact that he accused my best friend’s father of conspiring to kill JFK. We can go through the fact that he’s made statements that some have identified correctly as religiously intolerant.”
In response to Trump’s insinuation that Sen. Ted Cruz’s father was somehow involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lee told Malzberg “Right, right. He said that. He actually said that. He said that without any scintilla, without a scintilla of evidence. Now that concerns me.”
Donald Trump is the same man he was then. Tragically for our democracy, Mike Lee is not.
Thomas Walker, Salt Lake City