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Lauren Boebert attends Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert put her support for former President Trump on full display Thursday morning, take a seat in the front row during his criminal hush-money trial in a lower Manhattan courtroom.
“Maybe they silenced President Trump. They didn’t gag me,” the Colorado congresswoman posted on the social platform X, where she shared a photo of her with several other Republican lawmakers in court. “Why is the fraud that Michael Cohen allows on TikTok with a Trump shirt behind bars, but Trump cannot speak out?”
Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and key witness in the trial, resumed his testimony on Thursday. He is part of prosecutors’ efforts to allege that Trump — during his 2016 run for the White House — falsified business records to cover up a payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about an alleged affair Trump had with her for almost twenty years. years ago.
Trump has been ordered by the judge not to speak publicly about witnesses in the case, including Cohen. Cohen, on the other hand, has been openly critical of his former boss in the run-up to the trial.
Boebert appeared at the courthouse Thursday morning with several fellow Republican House members, including House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good of Virginia and Reps. Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz of Florida, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona.
The Associated Press reported that Boebert, Gaetz, Waltz and Good were seated in the front row of the gallery, next to Eric Trump, the former president’s son. The Hill reported that as the jury entered the courtroom Thursday morning, Boebert “slowly turned her body to continue facing them as they walked across the room to the jury box.”
“I am in New York City today in court with President Trump. We support him 100%!” Boebert wrote on X before the trial resumed.
Thursday’s contingent of Republican lawmakers was the latest GOP politician to attend Trump’s trial this week in a show of support for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who is seeking a second term in the White House. It would be the first time an American president has served a split term since Grover Cleveland did so in the late 19th century.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson appeared at the Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, as did U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. Additionally Republican members of Congress appeared at the proceedings on Monday, when Cohen first took the stand.
Trump endorsed Boebert in March in her race to capture Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, calling her a “trusted America First Fighter.” Boebert changed the endorsement to a campaign ad shortly after.
Boebert moved to the 4th District earlier this year to run for the eastern Colorado seat ultimately vacated by former Rep. Ken Buck. She continues to represent Colorado’s Third Congressional District, based largely on the Western Slope, until her term ends in January.
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