Lauren Boebert has officially responded to allegations that
she once worked as an unlicensed escort and even had two abortions.
She has denied these allegations which were put out by the same political action
committee that tanked Madison Cawthorn political career,
the American muckrakers pack.
And not only has she denied it, she's also threatening to sue them, but
before we get to those details and you wanna stick around for those details.
I just want to give you a refresher on what transpired this week.
Okay, so here were the allegations, Lauren Boebert and
this was posted on fire Boebert.com.
Lauren Barber was an unlicensed paid escort and
met clients through SugarDaddyMeet.com.
Text messages show that she was bankrupt at the time and looking for
side income and called her work pay to play, she was paid to escort wealthy men.
The allegations continue to say that Boebert had an abortion.
At the Planned Parenthood clinic in Glenwood springs Colorado due to her work
with a SugarDaddyMeet.com client.
And then there were some elements to these allegations that
potentially implicate Ted Cruz.
In 2019 for instance, Boebert was hired allegedly according to these allegations
by a wealthy male client in Aspen Colorado who was a coke family member.
Boebert rich client subsequently introduced her to us
Senator Ted Cruz in Aspen in 2019.
After meeting with Boebert was encouraged by him to run for
congress and then here's a part that is confirmed, okay.
And the question is why did it play out this way after Boebert announced
her campaign for Congress in December of 2019.
Senator Cruz donated $126,000 to the Boebert campaign and
helped her raise large sums of money during trips Boebert made to Texas.
Boebert didn't disclose a $75,000 donation until
Cruz's Federal election commission filings contradicted her filings.
>> Ineteresting.
>> Why did she hide that contribution?
We don't know, but what we do know so
far is that Boebert has denied these allegations first via Twitter,
where she wrote fact check, not true fake news four Pinocchio's.
Also, y'all need Jesus.
>> Well if it is true, apparently you do.
>> So she first denies it on Twitter.
And then we learn that there is a possible lawsuit coming okay.
And so her attorney wrote a strongly worded letter to
the American muckrakers pack saying we have irrefutable
evidence that each one of these statements is patently false.
You knew this though,
Muckrakers published these outlandish statements knowing they were fabricated.
But you likely operated under the inaccurate assumption that publishing
false statements against a public figure would not create legal liability.
And then the lawyer, his name is Jonathan Anderson noted that proving
a defamation case against a public figure has a heightened standard of proof.
And said that what is legally and financially disastrous for muckrakers is
the fact that we also have evidence including internal Muckrakers text and
email communications.
That demonstrates Muckrakers did in fact published statements knowing those
statements to be false.
So that is what the lawyer is alleging, right.
And the reason why he's wording it this way is because in a defamation case.
In order to win as the individual bringing the defamation suit,
you have to prove actual malice, right.
You have to prove that there was malicious intent and
that the individuals who published this information did so
knowing that it was false again, that is a pretty high bar.
But Johnny Depp did it.
[LAUGH] So who knows now this is the part that I I find super juicy, right.
Because American Muckrakers pack responded to Lauren Boebert
tweet denying that this is true by saying this.
Okay, no second term for Boebert, if it's fake news,
then sue us, we would love to depose you about these matters.
And Ted and Mr. Coke bring it, you fake congress thing.
[COUGH] Okay, So that's super strong and [COUGH] I know that when I'm right,
I've been tempted to say that lawyers normally tackle you.
Before you say that and they say no matter how right you are,
you gotta be super duper careful, okay.
And they did it anyway, so I mean if I'm looking at this from the outside and
trying to figure out who's got the right cards.
[COUGH] I'm leaning towards the guys who say, come at me bro, sue me,
let's go to deposition, see how that turns out for you.
And so my guess is she's not gonna actually sue.
So now look she's if the allegations are false she gets put
in an impossible situation because if you
don't respond everybody's gonna say well I guess it must be true.
If you do respond then everybody is allowed to write about it cuz you are now
responding.
And that's the United States congress person saying I didn't have to
abortions and I wasn't an escort, right.
So that puts her in a super tough spot if she didn't do it,
if she did do it it puts her in a tough spot all good.
Okay so that's great.
Now in terms of why I think she's not gonna actually sue that
those depositions are real man.
You gotta go and you got to answer the questions truthfully.
And the other side gets to present evidence.
Mr. Uygur in a previous career you were a practicing lawyer, am I correct?
>> Not a big deal, I was for at least nine months two.
>> So what typically happens in this type of lawsuit?
There's a process known as discovery, what happens in discovery?
>> Well that is where you must legally hand over the documents that are relevant.
If not you have consequences, right.
And so if they're going to ask Boebert for documents and she hides them,
she theoretically could be in a lot of trouble, right.
Otherwise she has to give them over.
Okay so that's why Muckrakers is coming in
super strong over the top going, let's do it.
I'll see you in court.
And that's why I don't think she's gonna do it because even if she would like,
let's say that it's wrong around the edges, she didn't have two abortions.
She had three, okay.
No, seriously, she had one.
She wasn't like she was an escort, but only for six months.
She didn't sleep with Ted Cruz or the coke family guy, but others,
right, well you're still gonna get caught, right.
So you don't wanna go through discovery and deposition if you did any of it.
>> And also through the discovery process, there could be other embarrassing and
or incriminating you know, details about either her past.
Her present, what she's engaging in through her position of power.
I mean, that's what you saw through the Johnny Depp Amber heard trial, right.
It wasn't just that you were learning about the allegations that she had
defamed Johnny Depp.
You learned all sorts of pretty terrible and
embarrassing things that she herself had engaged in.
So look, does this put her in a tough spot if she actually is completely innocent and
hadn't engaged in anything including the escort allegation or the abortions sure.
But at the same time she has no problem putting every woman in America
in a tough spot by essentially letting the government decide what she can and
can't do with her body.
So I know that there are a few people on the left who are like these aren't
completely confirmed and tisk, tisk.
We must show everyone how good and moral we are and how pure we are and
we must be kind to this woman who is stripping us of our rights.
Yeah, I don't I'm not interested in playing that way.
We are reporting what is being alleged.
I'm gonna continue reporting on this story because I think the American public.
Primarily the right wing voters in America who purport to care so
much about family values, deserve to know what the reality is.
>> Yeah and so there's two parts of that as well.
One is if it turns out that she didn't do, that's why I would love for
them to go to court cause I'd like to know what's true.
I don't I wouldn't like to know what's against Boebert if it isn't true, right.
So if it turns out she didn't do any of these things, I would love no problem
coming out here and telling you guys, no, that was totally unfair attack against.
It doesn't mean she isn't wrong on all the issues, that's she's already wrong, right.
But the truth matters now.
The second point is Daniel Sanchez wrote in on YouTube super chat.
Am I the only one to see Barber's story as a tragedy.
I have friends who have resentful e resorted to sex work given the chance
they do the same.
No, look, I'm really glad you wrote that in Daniel.
We clarified this when we originally covered this story to look,
we're not getting on her for the escort stuff at all.
If she did that, it is what it is.
That is not only is it that the least of the charges, it's not even a charge,
I don't care, right.
So if she did the escort work for
republicans who then paid her money to run as a politician, that's different, okay.
And we talked about our husband taking nearly half a million dollars from oil and
gas companies pretending to be a consultant that's about influencing
our vote.
That's different, that's material that matters a lot more.
And then of course if the two abortions are true, well, I give it right
back to the Republicans if it's true, are you definitely gonna vote against her?
My guess is no, because I don't think you care.
I think you're just using it as an excuse to attack the other side.
I don't think you care at all that she had two abortions.
>> The culture war of reproductive rights,
which has been completely manufactured by the right wing.
Has been a tool for political power and that tool for political power has severe
consequences for the freedoms and the autonomy of women in this country.
And so this is not us saying like, it's wrong to be an escort or
someone who works as a sex worker, in fact,
it should be legalized and regulated to protect sex workers.
And we've been on the record on that a million times.
Look, we live in an age where we can be blunt and
clear about where we stand on the issues.
And people still want to signal that they're somehow better and
that we're wrong for even talking about this story.
I don't care, no deal were clear about where we stand on sex workers.
If covering the story, offends you go ahead and be offended again.
Don't care about it at all.