- Rep. Lauren Boebert tweeted on Saturday that the Pentagon views her as a safety risk.
- Her info comes from a web site with a historical past of conspiracy theories about COVID and vaccines.
- The Pentagon declined to remark.
Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado claimed on Saturday that the Pentagon considers her a safety risk.
Boebert tweeted on Saturday: “Apparently the Pentagon thinks I am a safety risk as a result of I oppose Biden’s plans for a woke navy. Name me no matter you need, however I am not backing down as we speak or ever.”
Apparently the Pentagon thinks I’m a safety risk as a result of I oppose Biden’s plans for a woke navy.
Name me no matter you need, however I’m not backing down as we speak or ever.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) June 10, 2023
Boebert’s tweet seems to reference a put up on TRMLX, a web site run by nameless writers and editors, that claims the Pentagon created a report in February 2021 that highlighted social media posts from distinguished conservatives, together with Boebert, as potential “safety threats.”
The report, titled “Various Social Media Replace 06 February 2021 (0600),” included screenshots of posts from figures like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, and others.
That stated, the positioning TRMLX has a checkered historical past. The location is run by the identical nameless authors as a navy meme web page referred to as Terminal CWO, and each have trafficked in COVID and vaccine conspiracy theories.
At one level Terminal CWO tweeted that whereas no kids have died from COVID, the vaccine has killed many kids, an announcement that one of many website’s authors admitted was false.
A author utilizing the pseudonym “Danny,” the identical title used to write down about Rep. Boebert being a safety risk, advised Navy Occasions in 2021 that the declare that the COVID vaccine killed kids was an try to “troll.”
“It was one hundred pc a troll,” Danny advised Navy Occasions. “They had been frothing on the bait. They had been simply going off on our account, I imply, simply the nastiest issues you might say.”
“We can’t affirm the contents of the doc or the veracity of these claims,” a spokesperson for the Pentagon stated when reached for remark concerning Boerbert.
