Taking part in to the MAGA base, controversial Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert refused to apologize for claiming her Democratic colleague Al Inexperienced of Texas used a “pimp cane” to confront Donald Trump on the president’s handle to a joint session of Congress final week.
Boebert, chatting with MAGA-leaning Actual America’s Voice on Tuesday, the place she first floated the racist trope, as an alternative questioned whether or not Inexperienced even wants the cane for mobility.
“I stand by it,” she mentioned, because the community posted a graphic displaying Boebert, adorned with what seemed to be a feather boa, holding the cane. “I’ve by no means really seen Al Inexperienced use his cane as a assist to stroll. I’ve seen him shake it for years all all through the Capitol throughout any assembly that I’ve ever been current with him in.”
“If that gold-plated cane isn’t a pimp cane, I don’t know what’s,” added Boebert, who has a historical past of controversial feedback and lewd habits that many individuals have deemed inappropriate for her workplace.
Inspired by the interviewer, who known as her the “unhealthy lady” of Congress, Boebert mocked the Democratic Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, who on Monday launched a decision to censure Boebert for “disparaging and derogatory remarks” about Inexperienced.
“Houli-who is definitely the racist right here,” she mentioned. “Are solely Blacks pimps? Is that what I’m listening to? Are there no cisgender white pimps in America?”
Houlahan mentioned feedback by Home Speaker Mike Johnson inspired her to introduce the censure decision.
“After my dialogue on the Home ground final week when Speaker Johnson informed me he’d must censure half the members if he really enforced the principles of the Congress, I made a decision to assist, and tonight launched a decision to censure Consultant Boebert for her racist and derogatory statements about Consultant Al Inexperienced (D-TX),” Houlahan mentioned in an announcement.
Critics from the left roasted Boebert for her determined want for consideration.
“Actual query…. how do YOU know what a ‘pimp’ cane is??” one feminine commenter on X remarked. “Hmmm???? You, however, are a egocentric, power-hungry liar. Incompetent and you’re a chaos agent who thirsts for the limelight…. however, hey, that’s simply my opinion.”
“I’ve seen her brag about her mind for years however have by no means seen her use it,” mentioned one other Boebert critic on X.
MAGA adherents, in fact, liked Boebert’s remarks.
“Lauren Boebert tells it like it’s,” one supporter mentioned on X.
Boebert has additionally dismissed progressives who’ve labeled her a hypocrite for yelling from the Home ground throughout Democratic President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.
“And even you had some people on the left making an attempt to come back out early and defend this habits and evaluate it to an picture of Marjorie Taylor Greene and myself, who had been chanting ‘Construct the wall’ whereas all different Republicans had been chanting the identical phrase,” Boebert mentioned. “They usually simply obtained that one picture and acted like we fully disrupted the State of the Union. However Al Inexperienced was given a number of alternatives to face down, to take a seat down, to behave, to indicate decorum. And he didn’t.”
Inexperienced, 77, was ultimately escorted from the chamber after ignoring repeated requests from Speaker Johnson to take a seat down. He was censured final week for heckling the president.
