United States of America

Boebert Denies Ethics Complaint Over Alleged Staffer Affairs

Is Boebert facing the same accountability she's demanded of others or is this an unverified smear?

5 hours ago·Updated 4 hours ago

Boebert Denies Ethics Complaint Over Alleged Staffer Affairs

Story

Above: Rep. Lauren Boebert at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 1. Image credit: Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Spin

Left narrative

Boebert built her career lecturing everyone else about morality, telling colleagues caught in sex scandals to go to church and find Jesus while smearing LGBTQ people as groomers. Now sworn allegations describe relationships with three staffers she supervised and a $200,000 payment to keep one quiet. Boebert once demanded lawmakers disclose settlements — that standard applies here too.

Ari Drennen on Liz Webster

Unpresidented on Substack

Right narrative

This is a campaign hit job dressed up as an ethics filing, timed so that the House Ethics Committee can't even accept it within 60 days of an election. Not one shred of independent proof exists, no member of Congress certified it in good faith and both women named have flatly denied the whole thing. Newsrooms ran salacious claims from a serial smear artist without checking the rulebook first.

Honey Bomb on Liz Webster

Lauren Boebert on Liz Webster