Lauren Boebert Hit With Defamation Suit By Group Who Said Worked As Escort

Описание: The group American Muckrakers has hit Republican Representative Lauren Boebert with a defamation lawsuit, claiming that she has caused financial harm to the group by attacking their credibility publicly. The group is responsible for the contested report that Boebert worked as an escort and had multiple abortions - claims that Boebert denies and threatened to sue the group for making. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Lauren Bobert has been hit with a defamation lawsuit by the group, American Muckraker. The lawsuit claims that after a report that American Muckraker put out, that alleged things such as, uh, Bobert had two abortions. She was acting as an unpaid escort, and she was involved in an ATV crash in 2019, in which she, in which she has alleged to have been drinking. So, lots of accusations. I know we all remember when that report came out, it was huge news that, oh my God, this, this individual used to work as an escort. She had multiple abortions, and that's it pretty big for a Republican candidate, right? Well, Bober immediately denied all of those claims, said, This is totally false. These people are lying. And then she said, I'm gonna sue them. Right? I'm gonna sue you because yeah, I mean, those are pretty strong accusations, and if you can't back 'em up, then absolutely, Lauren Bobert would have a defamation lawsuit on her hands.

But here's where things get interesting, right? That happened, what, June or July, I think. Um, and she said immediately, we're suing them. We're gonna sue them for defamation, slander, liable, whatever it is. That lawsuit never came about. See, I didn't realize that I actually had to go checking. And as best I can tell, no lawsuit was ever filed by Lauren Bobert for these allegedly outrageous and outlandish claims. She's not taking them to court for slandering her after promising to do so. However, her denials, you know, her attacks on American muckraker, according to the defamation lawsuit they have filed has hurt them financially. You know, American Muck Breakers is also the group, by the way, that helped take down Madison Callthorne. They got a ton of goodwill from that. They raised a lot of money. They went after Lauren Bobert. She trashed them. You know, it was hard to corroborate their story that they had put out. So they were hurt financially from this. They stopped getting as many donations according to the lawsuit.

But here's the thing about their reporting, and I'm not saying that they're, they're right or she's right, whatever. But here's what they did. American Muckraker says the allegations made against Bobert came from hours of recorded phone calls and other information from former friends of Bobert former employees and Republican political operatives in Colorado. The pack says, Bobert lied about American muckrakers claims, and it has had a negative financial impact on the pack. So American Muckraker did the muck break, right? They, they talked to these people. They have hours of recorded phone calls. In other words, even if what they put out is not accurate, they still have the evidence to back up the claims that they made. And here's why that is important, because if there was some big conspiracy with Bob's friends and these

Republican operatives to feed fake information to American muckraker, American Muckrakers would not have the liability for printing the false story because there would be no actual malice. They were doing whatever every investigative reporter in this country does, which is you talk to sources, you gather the information from them, you put it out there to the public. If everything you've been given is fabricated, including testimony and documents, you would have no way of knowing that. You would think that what you had was legit. You would put it out there, and maybe it's a lie, right? If it's fabricated, it would be a lie.

But that's not actual malice on your part. You did your due diligence, so you would not be held liable in a defamation lawsuit against you. So even what I'm, what I'm trying to say is basically, even if the report was false, they would still have claims of a defamation case against Lauren Bobert because she has accused them of intentionally, of course, printing fake information. But even if the information is fake, but they had the evidence and the interviews to say that it wasn't, They're, they, they've got a case. I, I know it seems a little confusing and convoluted, but it's really not. They have a case against Lauren Bobert. She does not have a case against them, which is why she didn't file one. But American Muckraker did.