Lauren Boebert suggests Trump withheld funds to Colorado over prosecution of election denier | Colorado
Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert claimed that Donald Trump blocked funding for a clean drinking water project in her state because of the prosecution of election denier Tina Peters.
Colorado governor Jared Polis commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday and ordered his release on June 1. The former Colorado county clerk allowed unauthorized people to access voting records during efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Boebert welcomed the change that same day, taking some credit but giving Trump even more.
“I am proud of the relentless pressure my office and I applied, working hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump to highlight Tina’s case and demand justice,” the congresswoman said. wrote. “This outcome would not have been possible without the constant pressure and advocacy from President Trump, who always knew that Tina deserved justice under the law.”
In the comments 9News Denver On Friday, Boebert also said she hoped Peters’ release would persuade Trump to stop blocking funding for a federal project to bring clean drinking water to Colorado. “We were told Tina was the reason we weren’t getting water,” Boebert said, an apparent reference to Trump applying the same pressure to Colorado’s governor as he did to Ukraine’s president in 2019 when he withheld congressionally mandated military aid to force Ukraine to open a bogus investigation of Joe Biden. Trump was impeached for this plan in 2019.
In January, the president vetoed a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in Boebert’s Colorado district after it passed unanimously in the House and Senate. Boebert, like other lawmakers in Colorado, supported the bill to support clean water for 50,000 people in the region.
Trump talked about financial concerns, but Boebert pointed out He said Trump supported the project on the House floor before vowing to retaliate against Colorado for keeping Peters in prison, and Boebert joined an effort to push the administration to release files on the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Trump socialized for nearly two decades.
When the House of Representatives approved Trump’s veto at the time, he criticized colleagues but not the president.
“I was disappointed to see the lack of leadership, the number of people who would give in, give in, not take a stand,” Boebert said. “This is a bill that no one in that chamber opposed from a policy standpoint. It was purely political and it’s very unfortunate.”
“People are afraid of getting a bad tweet or being attacked. And I’m here to serve the benefit of my constituents,” Boebert said.
