Fact-checking Lauren Boebert's story about a man getting beaten to death outside her restaurant
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Boebert's story is inaccurate, according to records obtained from local authorities; the man was determined to have died because of "methamphetamine intoxication," not homicide. But the records do suggest the man may have been involved in a physical altercation shortly before he collapsed.
Boebert, a Republican, told the story to Fox News in a 2014 feature piece on the restaurant's gun-packing servers. She told it during her successful 2020 campaign for Congress. She told it at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2021. And on Wednesday, she told it again on the floor of the House of Representatives during a debate about a bill that would require background checks for gun sales by unlicensed or private sellers.President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
In the days and weeks leading up Hunter Biden’s trial on felony gun charges, President Joe Biden made little attempt to distance himself from his son. Instead, Hunter Biden was seen at the White House and in Delaware at his father’s side amid what the president’s allies acknowledge is a difficult moment for both men.