Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert is digging her heels in on Wednesday amid an onslaught of bipartisan criticism for heckling President Joe Biden‘s State of the Union address while he mentioned his dead son Beau.
‘The left is p***ed because I called out Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 of America’s finest in a flag-draped coffin,’ Boebert wrote on Twitter.
‘They are mad because a speech was “interrupted”. Ask the the families who lost their loved ones how interrupted their lives are now.’
She previously defended herself late Tuesday evening, writing on the platform that ‘When Biden said flag draped coffins I couldn’t stay silent.’
Boebert earned ‘boos’ from the House chamber on Tuesday night when called out Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal while he was talking about cancer-causing burn pits affecting military service members. He believes such pits led to…