A senior staffer for Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) sent a scathing and emotional email to the office of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Monday night after Lee blamed the political left for the shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses.

“It is important for your office to know how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend,” Ed Shelleby, Smith’s deputy chief of staff, wrote in the email, which was first reported by Semafor.

“Using the office of US Senator to post not just one but a series of jokes about an assassination—is that a successful day of work on Team Lee? Did you come into the office Monday and feel proud of the work you did over the weekend?”

State Rep. Melissa Hortman (D), a friend of Smith’s, was assassinated along with her husband by a gunman who also shot state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife over the weekend. The........

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