>>105080307No, you're confusing certain events.
First the senator had always been pushing for a hearing regarding Superman. She just didn't have a strong enough case to put the pressure on him.
Lex had found the kryptonite and wanted to import to the US legally, with the congress giving his company and possibly Wayne Enterprises in joint-venture the legal go-ahead for them to devise a weapon against Superman utilizing it. That's why Lex was cooking Bruce's anger at low temperatures.
For the hearing to have a strong enough case against Superman he created the massacre using his connection in that area - the US army was paying him to arm and train the rebels of that region.
Lex thought that by giving the hearing this big ammunition, the senator would play ball and give him the ammunition he needed. The problem is that the senator didn't let him import the krypnite, only to study the ship and Zod's corpse.
Lex tried to approach Bruce to discurse their plans, but Bruce brushed him off .
Lex pissed off at the senator and missing his paid witness for the massacre decided to use the wheelchair guy to bomb the hearing.
Bruce went about stealing the kryptonite Lex had just imported.
Now Bruce needs to be taken out, so Lex kidnap Superman's mom and Lois, the only people he seem to care about and forces him to kill Batman.
If Batman kills Superman, win. If Batman is by Superman, there's Doomsday to be awaken.
But by this point Lex is already pretty desperate because nobody is playing ball.
