Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) attacked Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for “full gaslighting” after he defended President Joe Biden throughout an interview over the weekend ― an accusation critics shortly turned towards her.
Mayorkas, who was the topic of a failed Republican impeachment attempt on the Home ground final week, went on the offensive for his boss after particular counsel Robert Hur known as Biden an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Mayorkas known as these claims “gratuitous, pointless and inaccurate.”
“Essentially the most troublesome half a few assembly with President Biden is getting ready for it, as a result of he’s sharp, intensely probing, and detail-oriented, and targeted,” he stated on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
Boebert retweeted the clip and in contrast Mayorkas to notorious Iraqi propagandist Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf, aka “Baghdad Bob.”
“Even Baghdad Bob was a bit extra refined than this,” she wrote on X. “Full gaslighting.”
Boebert, who final yr was kicked out of a efficiency of the “Beetlejuice” musical for being disruptive and inappropriate, holds what had been extensively thought of a “protected” Republican Home seat, however barely gained reelection in 2022 and since switched districts in an effort to duck a rematch with Adam Frisch.
Nevertheless, she recently came in fifth in a straw ballot of her new district.
Boebert’s critics couldn’t assist however level out the irony of the “gaslighting” declare given her embrace of conspiracytheories and complete fealty to Donald Trump.:
.@laurenboebert Lauren, maybe it is best to keep away from name-calling and judging individuals’s psychological resilience. All of us witnessed your efficiency within the theater. Possibly sit and let the adults sort out the intense issues. Thanks.
Of us, these persons are fully ineffective. The… pic.twitter.com/NF6TQv2Tk8
— Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 (@4HumanUnity) February 11, 2024
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— Make America Safer Right this moment 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🟨 (@MAST_Cyber) February 11, 2024
I am genuinely shocked you understand what gaslighting is
— JuiceLord (@RvrLrd) February 11, 2024
Dont Fear, 11 extra months and also you wont need to be involved with any of this!
— Chris Becker (@Chris_Becker2) February 11, 2024
If solely America might get a restraining order towards this fool.
— 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢 (@ChidiNwatu) February 11, 2024
5TH IN A STRAW POLL 😭😭
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