'You are evil': Lauren Bobert branded a 'simpleton sociopath' for 'ghoulish' Alec Baldwin attack

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, the QAnon Republican lawmaker and gun rights activist who owns a bar named Shooters in Rifle, Colorado, is being criticized after posting a tweet mocking and attacking Alec Baldwin. The well-known actor who spent several years playing Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live" shot and killed award-winning cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, apparently by accident, with a prop gun on set less than 24 hours ago.
Boebert dug up a seven-year old tweet Baldwin had sent in support of Michael Brown, the 18-year old Black man fatally shot by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer.
She then added a snide and ugly remark and posted it to Twitter, only too happy to use the pain of Hutchins' grieving family, friends, and industry as a tool to attack Baldwin:
The outrage was palpable, even from a few on the right, like former Trump White House Director of Strategic Communications:
If you\u2019re going to tout your Christian faith, how about trying to have some empathy and grace over a tragedy? Don\u2019t remember the part of the gospel that says \u201canything for RTs\u201dhttps://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1451587520261722119\u00a0\u2026— Alyssa Farah (@Alyssa Farah) 1634929814
A Democratic U.S. Congressman weighed in:
You are a ghoul.https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1451587520261722119\u00a0\u2026— Ruben Gallego (@Ruben Gallego) 1634928863
And many others:
A member of Congress is using her taxpayer-funded salary to dig up seven year old tweets to troll a man she's never met in what's probably the worst moment of his life. "Shame" doesn't even begin to describe this.https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1451587520261722119\u00a0\u2026— Mike Rothschild (@Mike Rothschild) 1634929979
So you just straight up don't give a fuck that there's a grieving family who just lost their loved one and can see you joking about their loved one's tragic death, huh?— Kendall Brown (@Kendall Brown) 1634930104
You really have to be the most ghoulish, heartless, shittiest excuse for a human being to use a tragic accident that cost a young woman her life, to attempt to crack a joke at @AlecBaldwin\u2019s expense.https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1451587520261722119\u00a0\u2026— Ana Navarro-C\u00e1rdenas (@Ana Navarro-C\u00e1rdenas) 1634930311
The \u201cparty of family values\u201d ladies and gentlemen.\nThis vile creature is reveling in a tragic death.\nShe\u2019s using that horrible accident as a weapon in order to attack someone who is undoubtedly suffering.\nThis is who she is.\nShe is grotesque.\nShe\u2019s an embarrassment to Congress.— Jo (@Jo) 1634932065
This fact makes me so sad. This is the kind of person we have representing Americans.— Jacqui White (@Jacqui White) 1634925458
Lauren Boebert is a simpleton sociopath. She is a profoundly stupid person who compensates by being a huge asshole.\n\nIn hell, she\u2019d be the hostess at a Nazi Hooters.https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1451587520261722119\u00a0\u2026— The Hoarse Whisperer (@The Hoarse Whisperer) 1634932117
The party of 'Christian values'. \n\nA person died. These people are repulsive.https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1451587520261722119\u00a0\u2026— Francis Maxwell (@Francis Maxwell) 1634931184
One thing that really binds the modern Republican Party is a complete disregard for the life of human beings.https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1451587520261722119\u00a0\u2026— David Rothschild (@David Rothschild) 1634929525
You are evil.https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1451587520261722119\u00a0\u2026— drew olanoff (@drew olanoff) 1634931771
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