Rep. Lauren Boebert says both Trump & Jesus are victims of cancel culture

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) — known for her hateful anti-LGBTQ+ views and for going viral for being kicked out of the musical Beetlejuice for vaping and groping her date — has taken to X to express her views on the recent Trump assassination attempt and its connection to Jesus being “canceled.”

In a live stream on X (formerly Twitter), Boebert went on a tangent about the importance of speaking the truth, and seemed to compare God and Trump as they “both speak the truth.”

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The expert also suggested ways to stop MAGA extremists from creating an atmosphere of political violence.

“We have to speak the truth. The enemy hates the truth. And everytime you speak it, he is going to try and silence you,” Boebert says in the video. The shooter who tried to kill Trump was a registered Republican.

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“This censorship, the silencing of those who speak the truth, it’s nothing new. Cancel culture is nothing new! You cannot cancel who God has called. They tried to cancel Jesus,” she continues.

During a livestream last night, Rep. Lauren Boebert compared Trump to God in that they "speak the truth."

"They tried to cancel Jesus. You can't cancel God!" pic.twitter.com/3nFj7HIDBA

— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) July 15, 2024

“You can’t cancel God! Jesus laid down his own life. No one took his life, he laid that down for you and for me,” Boebert says. She then seems to compare the crucifixion of Jesus to the recent failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, saying, “and history repeats itself.”

Unlike Jesus, Donald Trump did not die, or “lay down his life” as he survived Saturday’s assassination attempt.

The shooting did claim the life of a father of two and former fire chief, Corey Comperatore. He died shielding his family members from bullets, while he himself was fatally shot in the head.

Two other men, David Dutch and James Copenhaver, were also critically wounded.

Boebert is staunchly opposed to anti-LGBTQ+ rights. She states that she “opposes efforts to redefine marriage as anything other than the union of one man and one woman” on her website, and has introduced multiple bills that restrict or ban gender-affirming care for minors.

After Boebert was kicked out of a performance of the musical version of Beetlejuice last September for fondling her date’s genitals and vaping during the show, members of her own party turned their backs on her.

“Just after the congresswoman’s issues at the theater, I just decided that we had to do something different,” said Delta County Commissioner Don Suppes, when he endorsed her opponent. “So I started reaching out and trying to make sure that we had the right person in that seat for the next election.”

Boebert was accused of “cowardice” by a Colorado Sun columnist after Boebert switched districts upon realizing that she may lose reelection to Democrat Adam Frisch.

Rachel Kleinfeld, an expert on political violence and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently told Politico that it was the kind of rhetoric that Republicans such as Boebert use that fuel political violence like that kind we saw on Saturday. Boebert said she would “carry my Glock to Congress” in a January 2021 campaign ad.

“An awful lot of violence that has been unleashed by the MAGA faction has been unleashed against moderate Republicans,” Kleinfield told the publication.

“When you have political leaders like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert or so on, who are elected with less than 10% of their voting public because it’s just a small primary base, then you’re allowing more extreme positions to put political leaders in place, who then continue normalizing violence,” she continued.

The assassination attempt was done by Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old who had unclear political beliefs and motives. He was a registered Republican but donated to a progressive organization in 2021. A former classmate told The New York Times that he was bullied by other kids. “Those other kids would always say, ‘Hey, look at the school shooter over there!”‘ she told the publication.

Kleinfield warned that with the politically violent rhetoric is so rampant in everyday life that “an attempted assassination on a presidential candidate was almost just a matter of time.”

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