The
salacious Boebert accusations were fueled, in part, by the fact that American Muckrakers PAC’s founders have 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.
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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.
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 picture is actually Melissa Carone, a supposed voter-fraud witness cited by Rudy Giuliani, according to
a Daily Mail report from 2020.