Mike Lee forces impeachment managers to withdraw evidence he said is ‘not accurate’

By Susan Ferrechio

Published February 11, 2021 1:21am ET

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Mike Lee forces impeachment managers to withdraw evidence he said is ‘not accurate’ — Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, accompanied by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., right, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, on a reintroduction of a resolution to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

House impeachment managers were forced to withdraw part of their case against former President Donald Trump after Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, said it was false.

Impeachment managers in a presentation in Trump’s impeachment trial Wednesday relayed that on the night of the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, Trump called Lee in the Capitol, thinking he was reaching freshman Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama and a close ally.

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