Colorado deputy Lauren Boebert said she has received death threats after it was suggested, she believed, that she played a role in helping insurrectionists who besieged the Capitol last week.
Representative Sean Maloney, DN.Y., gave an interview to MSNBC this week, confirming that a member of Congress – who supports the gun carrying in the House and recently clashed with the Capitol Police – paid a visit to potential protesters .
Boebert, who fits both criteria, assumed that Maloney was implying that she had taken the tour, which she denied as “categorically false” in a letter to the New York Democrat.
Many members of the American public also assumed that Maloney meant that Boebert had taken the tour, which resulted in some dangerous consequences.
“The fact that you failed to check any of these lies or even talk to me before giving an interview on a national television network has caused my office to receive numerous death threats and hundreds of phone calls and e-mails,” the letter said. Boebert.
She called her allegations “embarrassment” for the House and asked her to correct herself officially as soon as possible.
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Maloney replied, however, that he never mentioned Boebert’s name.
During an interview with MSNBC, Maloney referred to the tour that a fellow congressman saw – although he did not explicitly say who did the tour.
“Some of our new colleagues, the same, of course, who believe in conspiracy theories and who want to carry weapons in the House of Representatives, who today – today – are shouting at the Capitol Police,” said Maloney during the interview.
He went on to say that lawmakers are in a “sad reality”, where the “enemy is inside” and they cannot trust each other.
“But now we cannot be sure that a member of Congress will not bring a weapon into possession,” said Maloney. “We cannot be sure that a member of this body would not be bringing people the night before who the next day could be participating in the murder of a Capitol police officer.”
When asked who the member was, he said he was not sure, but when the vehicle found out it would be “a real story”.
Maloney also tweeted a transcript of his interview to prove that he did not mention Boebert’s name.
After reading Maloney’s tweet, Boebert apologized for speaking to him – but asked him to clarify with MSNBC to stop the death threats.
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Boebert’s name made headlines this week after she had a disagreement with Capitol police officers who wanted to check her purse after she triggered the camera’s new metal detectors.
She referred to metal detectors as “another political maneuver” by Mayor Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.