Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert is under criminal investigation in connection with an alleged physical fight with her ex-husband at a restaurant in her district on Saturday night, according to reports citing police in Silt, Colorado.
No arrests were made regarding the incident, while the Silt Police Department confirmed the “active investigation” but declined to provide additional details about the involvement of the conservative lawmaker, who remains a staunch loyalist to former President Donald Trump.
The Daily Beast was the first to report the incident in which Boebert’s former spouse, Jayson Boebert, purportedly called authorities from the Miner’s Claim restaurant in Silt on Saturday night to report that he was the “victim of domestic violence.”
A Boebert aide who later spoke to the media denied allegations that the congresswoman was the aggressor in the episode after word of the incident went viral on social media, with an anti-Boebert PAC alleging the lawmaker punched Jayson Boebert in the face.
According to the social media post by American Muckrakers, Boebert allegedly pummeled her ex-husband twice in the nose and then “continued to beat him up. Then she called the cops on him,” according to a source who reported overhearing the whole buzz over a police scanner.
However, Boebert’s aide immediately disputed these claims as inaccurate, while police would not confirm what happened between the former couple.
The next day, the congresswoman issued a statement to CNN, saying: “I didn’t punch Jayson in the face, and no one was arrested. I will be consulting with my lawyer about the false claims he made against me and evaluate all of my legal options.”
American Muckrakers made the post about the altercation late on Jan. 6 — which was also the third anniversary of the siege on the U.S. Capitol, which Boebert previously described as a “1776 moment” for Trump in comparison to the year America declared its…
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