Sen. Dianne Feinstein was wrong during Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee meeting with her claims that President Donald Trump's tweets incite violence and she should apologize, Sen. Mike Lee said Wednesday.
"Not one act of violence has been linked to President Trump in connection with events surrounding this election and I think she needs to recant her statement and apologize," the Utah Republican said on Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
Feinstein, while the committee was questioning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, brought up the arrests of two armed men in Philadelphia, who were detained after having driven into the city and appearing with weapons near the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
"I'm really struck by it, that people armed with assault weapons as a product of a tweet could rally outside an election office," Feinstein said. "It's really a serious issue that needs to be considered, and there need to be once you signal that ... it has to be in some way abated or some way pointed out or restructured on the internet itself."
"You had Washington, D.C., full to overflowing with peaceful Trump protesters," said Lee. "You had people approaching and beating up and saying vile things and putting people in physical danger including elderly people, including women and children. All of this was done by Trump haters, by antifa people who couldn't handle the fact that there were people peacefully showing their support for President Trump."
Feinstein's comment was "inappropriate," said Lee.
"I don't know what my colleague Sen. Feinstein was talking about but that was an inappropriate comment," Lee said.
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