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

'You are evil': Lauren Bobert branded a 'simpleton sociopath' for 'ghoulish' Alec Baldwin attack
Alec Baldwin speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, Gage Skidmore
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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:

A Democratic U.S. Congressman weighed in:

And many others:









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