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   Democrats have seized on a political action committee’s allegations   
   that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) worked as a prostitute and had   
   multiple abortions—claims that rest on zero actual evidence.   
      
   On Tuesday, American Muckrakers PAC, co-founded by Democrat and   
   former North Carolina state Senate candidate David Wheeler,   
   published allegations claiming that Boebert had previously worked as   
   an escort on a sugar-daddy website and underwent at least two   
   abortions, one of which was related to her supposed sugar-baby work.   
      
   For Boebert’s critics, the idea that the anti-abortion rights   
   conservative had in fact had multiple abortions herself offered   
   irresistible proof of Boebert’s hypocrisy. The allegations quickly   
   circulated in anti-Trump “Resistance” communities online. Occupy   
   Democrats, a popular liberal Twitter account, conceded that it   
   wasn’t clear whether the allegations were accurate. But it urged its   
   nearly 400,000 Twitter followers to retweet the claims “IF YOU THINK   
   THAT IT SOUNDS TRUE” anyway. Boebert’s name trended on Twitter.   
      
   Occupy Democrats   
   @OccupyDemocrats   
   1:13 PM · Jun 14, 2022   
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   Cenk Uygur   
   @cenkuygur   
   If @laurenboebert escort and abortion story is true, then I can't   
   wait to see what Republicans voters are going to do about someone   
   who has had two abortions while claiming to be pro-life. My guess is   
   they won't care at all. They never mean anything they say, except   
   hating us.   
   6:58 PM · Jun 14, 2022   
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   The allegations against Boebert were echoed by other prominent   
   online liberal Twitter pundits, including some current and former   
   Democratic politicians, such as former House candidate Brianna Wu,   
   Bernie Sanders ally and former House candidate Nina Turner, and   
   current Kentucky Senate hopeful Charles Booker.   
      
   Nina Turner   
   @ninaturner   
   If Lauren Boebert actually did have two abortions, I’m glad she had   
   access to safe, legal abortion services.   
      
   Every person should have that freedom and safety, if they so choose   
   to have an abortion.   
   4:34 PM · Jun 14, 2022   
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   Brianna Wu   
   @BriannaWu   
   I don’t know who needs to hear it, but you can absolutely point out   
   the hypocrisy of Lauren Boebert being a former sex worker and having   
   multiple abortions, while trying to deny other women access to the   
   same choices.   
   4:45 PM · Jun 14, 2022   
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   Charles Booker   
   @Booker4KY   
   If Lauren Boebert made the deeply personal decision to have an   
   abortion, it is her right.   
      
   I believe that right must be protected for all women.   
   7:10 PM · Jun 14, 2022 from Louisville, KY   
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   Boebert tweeted about the allegations on Tuesday night, giving them   
   “four pinocchios.” She is consulting with her lawyers about a   
   potential legal case, a senior staffer in Boebert’s office said.   
      
   Lauren Boebert   
   @laurenboebert   
   Fake News. Four Pinocchios.   
      
   Also…   
   Y’all need Jesus!   
   7:52 PM · Jun 14, 2022   
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   The salacious Boebert accusations were fueled, in part, by the fact   
   that American Muckrakers PAC’s founders backed up their outlandish   
   claims against another Republican congressman. They rose to some   
   level of political fame earlier this year after releasing several   
   lewd videos of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) that helped doom his   
   reelection campaign.   
      
   This time, though, the group doesn’t have videos to support their   
   allegations. Instead, they have heavily redacted text message   
   screenshots with an anonymous party supposedly close to Boebert. In   
   the messages, the anonymous source sketches out a tale that enters   
   the realms of lurid liberal fan fiction. The text messages describe   
   Boebert as a sex worker plucked from obscurity on a sugar-daddy   
   website by one of her clients, a member of the Koch family. That   
   client, in the PAC’s telling, then introduced Boebert to Sen. Ted   
   Cruz (R-Texas), who urged her to run for office.   
      
   Wheeler argues that the text messages are enough proof, since he   
   knows the person behind them.   
      
   “They’re not anonymous to me,” Wheeler told The Daily Beast. “I know   
   who this individual is.”   
      
   When the source’s story isn’t wild enough, the interviewer on the   
   other end of the text conversation—one of the PAC’s staffers—pushes   
   the source further. After the anonymous source writes that they   
   “don’t get” why Cruz would support Boebert’s political aspirations,   
   the interviewer asserts, without any proof, that Boebert was   
   blackmailing Cruz.   
      
   “It’s obvious,” the interviewer writes. “She blackmailed him.”   
      
   “Omg I never thought about that!” the source responds.   
      
   “Yep,” the interviewer writes back. “You know her. She’s a kniving   
   (sic) little witch.”   
      
   At least one of the source’s claims can already be disproven. In the   
   text message log, the source provided the PAC with a picture of   
   what’s described as a picture of Boebert, wearing a short white   
   dress, sitting on a bed. The source claims the photo was taken from   
   Boebert’s profile on a sugar-daddy website. But the woman in the   
      
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