Lawrence O’Donnell Urges Mike Lee’s Staff to Resign over Social Media Post: ‘They Have a Moral Choice in Front of Them’

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O’DONNELL: “And Senator Mike Lee’s staff now live in the disgrace he has visited upon them, and they all have a moral choice in front of them now. Mike Lee purports to be a man of great religiosity, but he is obviously not a man of great morality or great decency, and his staff has to decide tonight what to do about the disgrace he has handed them. We all know what decency demands. Minimal Senate decency demands the resignation of any staff member who does not fully support Mike Lee’s despicable tweets. And so, if you remain on Mike Lee’s staff in the Senate and you find yourself down in the Dirksen cafeteria or walking the halls of the Russell Building, the Dirksen Building, or the Hart Senate Office Building or the Capitol, you should know that every other Senate staff member sees you as disgraced, sees you as wearing Mike Lee’s disgrace as your own, as long as you decide to continue to serve Mike Lee in the United States Senate. You have your own choice to make. If you agree with Mike Lee’s choice to make jokes about assassination of a Democratic officeholder in Minnesota, if you agree with that, then stay with Mike Lee, stick with Mike Lee, stick with him all the way. But if you do have decency, you know you only have one choice."