Republican Sen. Mike Lee deleted his controversial social media posts about the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband after several people criticized the Utah Republican for his comments.

Sen. Mike Lee found time Tuesday to delete social media posts blaming liberals for the fatal shooting of a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota—but not to apologize for them. Gone from the Utah Republican’s @BasedMikeLee account was his post calling the killing a “Nightmare on Waltz Street” and his other one reading,