Lee argued that Yale fired her in response to a January 2020 tweet that characterized "just about all" Trump supporters as suffering from "shared psychosis," and that Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz had "wholly taken on Trump's symptoms by contagion."

She also tweeted that Trump was "worse than Hitler," and then when challenged, stuck her other foot in her mouth - tweeting "Donald Trump is not an Adolf Hitler. At least Hitler improved the daily life of his followers, had discipline, and required more than himself to gain the respect of his followers."