Congresswoman Lauren Boebert makes first appearance after filing for divorce

news

To Patrick Riley

May 17, 2023 | 10:41 PM

Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert made her first public appearance since announcing the birth of her baby. filed for divorce From my husband of 18 years.

The gun-toting conservative joined other members of the House Republican leadership at a press conference on the World Health Organization outside the Capitol on Wednesday, a day after she said she was separating from her husband, Jason.

Boubert, 36, and her husband married in 2005 and have four children. She claimed that “irreconcilable differences” caused the couple to break up after almost 20 years.

“Having filed for divorce with my husband is a heavy burden on my heart,” she said in a statement Tuesday.

“I have always been loyal to my marriage and I believe strongly in marriage, which makes this announcement all the more difficult,” Bobert said.

Jason Boubert Apparently I was blind when I was handed the divorce papers According to court documents obtained by the Times, he threw his dog into a server last month.

When he was handed the “marriage dissolution” paperwork after the formal application on April 25, he was “cleaning the gun on the table while drinking a tall glass of beer.” An affidavit from the waiter said that he was under suspicion.

“He started yelling and using profanity and said he was calling the sheriff’s office because I was trespassing. but he closed the door and let the dog out,” the affidavit reads.

Boubert and her soon-to-be ex-husband have denied the allegations.

“The story being told about the process server is… a complete lie.” Boubert tweeted on Wednesday. “Jason doesn’t sit down and clean his gun, and he doesn’t drink beer out of a glass any more than he doesn’t drink Bud Light.”

She also claimed that security camera footage from her home “shows that he did not make the dog ‘sick’ on the process server.”

In a text message to the Daily Beast, Jason said the dog was never a threat to the server and was “upset” by the unannounced visit.

“I didn’t know what I was being served for, or if it was the crazy Left who came to my house again. I wasn’t drinking, I wasn’t cleaning guns. I didn’t,” he claimed.

“Divorce is sad. I didn’t expect it to be like this. I love her with all my heart. She is my soulmate and the mother of my children,” he added.

According to Bobert’s book,my american lifeShe and Jason met while working at Burger King at age 16 and “fell instantly in love.”