Colorado police reportedly arrived after Jayson Boebert called and claimed he was ‘victim of domestic violence’ and punched in face

Colorado police reportedly arrived after Jayson Boebert called and claimed he was ‘victim of domestic violence’ and punched in face

Rightwing US congresswoman Lauren Boebert is denying allegations that she punched her ex-husband in the face in public after police in Colorado were reportedly called out to an encounter involving the pair Saturday night at a restaurant.

The incident was first reported by the Daily Beast. The news site said that Jayson Boebert called police claiming that he was a “victim of domestic violence”. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Jayson Boebert alleged that the congresswoman had “punched” him in the face several times. He claimed to have a witness to the events.

“I didn’t punch Jayson in the face and no one was arrested,” Boebert said in a statement provided to reporter Kyle Clark of television station KUSA. Calling Saturday night’s events “a sad situation for all that keeps escalating”, she added: “I will be consulting with my lawyer about the false claims he made against me and evaluate all of my legal options.”

    • Kiernian@lemmy.world
      19·
      1 year ago

      The way I heard it, it wasn’t so much that the site itself was one wing or the other, it’s just the site that people were getting recruited FROM to eventually BECOME right wing… operatives?

      I’m not completely certain which domestic or foreign group is responsible for hiring all of them, but it’s clearly deliberate positioning of less-than-successful actors/models into noisemaking/visibility roles.

      They must be paying well because at least one of those people used to ostensibly be a liberal.

      Outside of eliminating all PAC-type “contribution” organizations, all shell company sorts of situations AND forcing all pundits to disclose their financing like a publicly traded corporation has to, we’re not going to stop bad money from funding horrible behaviour.

      It sure would be interesting to get a few of the worst of these folks hauled into court for the handful of harmful statements they’re making that constitute actual crimes and get their funding exposed, though.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        5·
        1 year ago

        imho it makes more sense to think that the Right would recruit from someone else’s site than to imagine that they would create the site themselves. The two main reasons are that it’s easier to use someone else’s work, and that it gives them a layer of separation in case there’s an investigation. That’s pure opinion.

      • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        1 year ago

        Normally I would call this a conspiracy theory but the right is notorious for projecting and we all know how vocal they are about crisis actors… Sounds like there might be something there.

      • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        1 year ago

        If she started with the brunette, sexy-librarian look she has now, she probably would have been more successful as a model and maybe not have to stoop to being a congressperson.