In the midst of the Capitol Building siege, Trump tried calling Tommy Tuberville but got the wrong senator

<p><img src="https://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5ff7fc106d61c10019cce4b4-2400/tommy tuberville.jpg" border="0" alt="Tommy Tuberville" data-mce-source="AP Photo/John Minchillo, File" data-mce-caption="2020 Alabama Republican US Senate nominee Tommy Tuberville"></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>It seems that nobody can get junior Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on the first try. <br><br>Just days ago Donald Trump's personal lawyer <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-left-voicemail-for-tommy-tuberville-on-wrong-number-2021-1">Rudy Giuliani left a long, rambling, and rather revealing voicemail</a> for Tubervilleonly it was the wrong number and the call reached an unnamed politician. The voicemail, which urged Tuberville to slow down the Electoral College vote certification as much as possible, was sent to <a href="https://thedispatch.com/p/giuliani-to-senator-try-to-just-slow">The Dispatch</a> and transcribed in full.&nbsp;<br><br>Then on Wednesday, President Trump attempted to reach Tuberville, too.<br><br>Only this time, the call went to Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who happened to be hunkering down near Tuberville in the Senate Chamber.&nbsp;<br><br>Lee told the <a href="https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/1/7/22218897/donald-trump-mike-lee-misdial-capitol-siege-congress-electoral-insurrection-moore-curtis-stewart">Deseret News</a> of his strange call with the president.&nbsp;</p><p id="tHfkSw">"How's it going, Tommy'" the president asked.</p><p id="JGadNS">Lee told Trump he wasn't Tommy.</p><p>"Well, who is this'" Trump asked. <br><br>"It's Mike Lee," the senator said. <br><br>"Oh, hi Mike. I called Tommy."<br><br>Lee said he then handed his phone over to Tuberville, who spoke with the president for around ten minutes, according to the Deseret News. In the midst of their phone call, Lee said, the Capitol police burst in and urged everyone to evacuate the building.&nbsp;<br><br>As the pro-Trump mob moved closer, Lee said he panicked and asked Tuberville for his phone back.</p><p id="ia9gaZ">"I don't want to interrupt your call with the president, but we're being evacuated and I need my phone," he said.</p><p id="RymPhG">Tuberville later told Lee he didn't think the president was aware that the siege was happening.&nbsp;<br><br>Tuberville was one of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/republicans-against-certification.html">several Republican senators</a>including Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texaswho voted to overturn election results in Arizona and Pennsylvania.</p><p>In December, Tuberville received praise from Trump after he said that he <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/18/politics/tommy-tuberville-electoral-college-reaction/index.html">would not rule out objecting</a> to the election results during the Electoral College certification process.&nbsp;<br><br>Following the siege of the Capitol Building, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTuberville/status/1347165774918672386">Tuberville tweeted</a> his condemnation of the protesters.<br><br>"Yesterday was a sad day for our great country," he wrote. "I strongly condemn the violence and actions we saw from those who stormed the Capitol. It undermines the freedoms we enjoy as Americans, and it has no place in our democracy."</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tommy-tuberville-wrong-number-trump-2021-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-do-your-own-taxes-for-the-very-first-time-2018-2">July 15 is Tax Dayhere's what it's like to do your own taxes for the very first time</a></p>
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