Lauren Boebert has finally responded to yesterday's escort an abortion
scandal story, strongly denying that there's any truth to it,
tweeting fact check, not true.
Fake news four Pinocchios also, y'all need Jesus, but
we will a little bit later on the show be getting into her
relationship with our understanding of Jesus and his message.
But she's saying it's not true.
And her spokesperson responded to a request for
comment from news week saying that the claims are totally false and
that the congresswoman is consulting her attorneys on next steps, which if
these allegations are false, yeah, she can and should sue people over it.
But we gotta let what the allegations are.
It's weird.
It's not the sort of stuff that we normally talk about the show.
But according to this American muckrakers pack,
they put out this thing yesterday alleging that she had been a unlicensed
paid escort with sugar daddy meat.com that she had had two abortions.
I believe that they say that one came about as
a result of the unlicensed escort work.
They've got other details there too.
But they say, according to our investigation,
Bobert was hired by a wealthy male client, Aspen Colorado,
who was a koch family member, Roberts, rich client subsequently introduced her to
US Senator Ted Cruz to run for political office.
And so, look, JR there is a lot here, obviously.
There's the the escort stuff, there's the allegations of abortions,
which we're gonna get into.
She's, very anti abortion in her political life at the very least.
And then there's also this angle with Ted Cruz,
where we'll we'll get into the money and everything.
Before we get into more of the specific allegations, though,
I will say that this sort of story makes me very uncomfortable.
Because this group, the American muckrakers back,
they had their revelations about Madison Cawthorn and
apparently everything that they put out was based.
In fact, I mean, none of it was really disputed.
Some of the interpretations might have been disputed, but
not the fact of what they revealed.
And so, some of us might say, well now they have the stuff about Bobert,
they've been proven to be accurate in the past, so maybe we should believe them.
But then on the other hand, I believe, well, they also got a ton of cred and
PR like, publicity off of the Madison cawthorn and stuff.
So, maybe they're chasing that and they want another big scoop.
And so, are they necessarily gonna vet their sources on this information,
as much as we might hope.
I don't know, we don't have that much of a record with this group.
So, what do you think about this entire thing?
>> I feel like you're taking the words like right out of my mouth, bro.
The first thing, I was gonna say is like, it makes me uncomfortable.
Like, I get it, I understand the implications behind it.
And if some people think, say these things would have been true,
why is it such a deal?
It shows the absolute and utter hypocrisy and
fakeness behind everything that she says that she stands for.
Because, there isn't anything behind that.
It's just a matter of gaining power, influence and money as we've seen.
Also, some of these other instances of what is.
We always ask people like Marjorie, Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert
and this this this grouping of republicans that are in the Congress now.
What is it that they do every time we keep hearing about them?
Like what work are they doing?
No, >> Yeah.
>> They weren't qualified to do any work.
They don't have the capacity to do any of this kind of work.
So, again, we don't know the level of of accuracy to these allegations and
stories that are coming out.
But as we continue on down this, I don't wanna just believe this group either.
But it would seem that it would add up to the fact that there's not much behind
anything else that she does except for being appointed here or
asked or paid whatever to come into this position and
to kind of disrupt and it's working, I guess because look, she's disrupting.
>> Yeah, she is very much interrupting.
So, yeah, we it's just look, and as you alluded to, it should be the most obvious
thing in the world, I don't think that we need to make this clarification,
there's nothing inherently wrong or anything like that in being an escort.
I mean, granted if the law is that you're supposed to be licensed,
then you should be licensed I suppose.
But that's not, sex workers work.
We say that all the time, whether we agree with the person on politics or not.
And we believe that she should have every right to whatever reproductive choices
that she wants as JR alluded to though,
the issue is that she doesn't hold any of those positions that I just express.
She doesn't believe that people, if you believe these allegations,
that anyone other than her should have access to reproductive services.
What do you think that she would say about escorts if she were asked in
a debate stage?
I mean, honestly.
So and again, all of this might well be untrue and
I would even lean towards probably untrue.
I mean, they've come out with photos and stuff like that.
But those could be, they could be from something else.
I mean, I don't wanna say for sure until we know for
sure the issue mainly is the hypocrisy.
But then also, why she was picked?
Because it has always seemed like a weird choice and
all of a sudden someone who just owned a random restaurant,
that had no political experience isn't a great political communicator.
I mean, I guess from the right wing point of view,
she says the right bombastic stuff, but then all of a sudden she just
is the candidate that always seemed a little bit weird.
I will also say, she came out and said this isn't true, whereas a couple
days ago when AOC was asking, have you ever asked for a presidential pardon?
She refuses to say whether she did or not.
And she has responded to it.
She just hasn't said.
So, maybe that leads us to think, well, then this definitely isn't true.
She's denying it.
Or it could be, that there is legal liability tied up with a public
declaration that she didn't ask for a pardon, whereas she has to
deny this because if it's accepted, it could be the end of her political career.
I don't know, I don't know.
What I will say though, is if she is thinking about suing,
she better think long and hard about whether it's true or not.
Because if it is true and she sues them, is it possible that the records of
those planned parenthood where one of the two alleged abortions happened
could be delved into if sugar daddy meat has records, which I imagine it does.
Is it possible that they could find something there are we sure that there's
no paper trail to any of this and maybe not, maybe not.
I mean, some of it seems, like borderline illegal, so
maybe they weren't keeping accurate records.
But I would be worried about like if she doesn't sue that may be sends kind of
a signal that she doesn't want this to go to court where a lot of stuff could
come out, but again, this is all just interpreted.
>> There are a lot of, I guess so there's are, there are a lot of,
I guess barking without much of a bite sometimes when it comes to people saying,
I'm gonna sue, I'm gonna sue, I'm gonna sue, I'm gonna sue.
I gotta get it, but I hadn't thought about that angle, the information that has to
come out if she does follow these lawsuits because it has to be adjudicated, right?
>> Yeah, we'll, see, I don't know, well we'll see and
I wanna get into more of the details, I will just say, [LAUGH].
Who is having a lot of fun with this and Ana Kasparian, I'm looking at her Twitter.
And is one of my favorite people, I want her to have joy in her life and so
like she is living her best life today, go to her twitter account,
she is not messing around, I'll just say that.
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