Lauren Boebert Mistakes Oliver Stone For Roger Stone At JFK Hearing
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) ended up with egg on her face Tuesday during a hearing where she confused film director Oliver Stone with GOP operative and adviser Roger Stone.
During a hearing about the recently released files regarding the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Boebert asked the director for his thoughts on the recent document dump.
But while Oliver Stone laid out his own JFK assassination theory in his 1991 film 'JFK,' Boebert was apparently unaware of this. Instead, she asked him about a book she claimed he wrote about the assassination and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
'Mr. Stone, you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy,' Boebert asked the director. 'Did these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?'
Stone was understandably confused by the question.
'Being involved in the assassination of President Kennedy? No, I didn't,' he said, before discussing his film.
'If you look closely at the film, it accuses President Johnson of being part of a complicit and a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don't know,' Stone explained.
Jefferson Morley, a journalist and author who was sitting next to the director, realized what had happened and quickly clarified the situation to the congresswoman. He suggested that Boebert had confused Oliver Stone, the director who she was speaking to on Tuesday, with Roger Stone, the GOP dirty trickster and author of the 2013 book, 'The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ.'
'I think you're confusing Mr. Oliver Stone with Mr. Roger Stone,' Morley told Boebert. 'It's Roger Stone who implicated LBJ in the assassination of the president. It's not my friend Oliver Stone.'
Boebert's response was a bit out of character for a Republican politician: She actually admitted being incorrect.
'I may have misinterpreted that, and I apologize for that,' Boebert said.
Not surprisingly, Boebert was mocked for the mistake.
Unredacted JFK Assassination Files Released, Sending History Buffs Hunting For New Clues
Trump Signs Order Declassifying JFK, RFK, MLK Jr. Assassination Documents
JFK's Grandson Reacts To Donald Trump's Planned Release Of Assassination Files
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
10 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Elon Musk rips Trump's 'big beautiful bill' as a 'disgusting abomination'
Elon Musk is unloading on Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" like never before. He called the legislative package a "disgusting abomination." "Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong," Musk said. Elon Musk is unloading on President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" like never before. "I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore," Musk wrote on X on Tuesday afternoon. "This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination." "Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong," Musk continued. "You know it." The sprawling bill, which passed the House in May with the support of all but a handful of Republicans, includes cuts to Medicaid and extension of the tax cuts that Trump and Republicans first enacted in 2017. GOP senators were at a weekly lunch in the Capitol when Musk's tweet landed. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, another fiscal hawk, told BI that the post was being "passed around" among his colleagues as they ate. "I texted it to a few people," Johnson said. "I had a phone passed to me." Musk's criticism of the bill isn't new — he said he was "disappointed" in it in an interview clip that aired last week — and comes as he formally exits the Trump administration. On Friday, the world's richest man joined Trump for a press conference to commemorate his time in government. The president lavished praise on Musk and seemed keen on dispelling any notion that cracks had emerged between the two men. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that in its current form, the bill would add $2.5 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. "It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt," Musk wrote in another post on X, adding in a third post that "Congress is making America bankrupt." The bill is now being worked on by GOP senators, and several fiscal hawks have already raised concerns about the bill's impact on the deficit. Among them is Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who immediately replied to Musk's post. "The Senate must make this bill better," Lee wrote. Musk's post landed just as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was delivering a briefing. "The president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill," Leavitt said. "It doesn't change the President's opinion. This is one big beautiful bill, and he's sticking to it." It's not the first time Musk has criticized the bill — though last time, he wasn't as forceful. In a recent interview with CBS, Musk said that the bill undermined DOGE's cost-cutting work. "I was like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing," Musk said. "I think a bill can be big, or it could be beautiful. I don't know if it could be both." Read the original article on Business Insider
Fox News
14 minutes ago
- Fox News
Rep. Chip Roy Reacts to Musk's Criticism Of The Trump-Backed Spending Bill: 'He's Speaking Truth About The Moment'
Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to give his take on Tesla CEO Elon Musk's blistering criticism of President Trump's 'big, beautiful bill', which was passed by the GOP-led House last month. 'I think Elon is speaking truth about the moment, about the need to be much bigger and better than what we're doing. We need to cut more spending. We need make sure deficits are going down. But I'll also say, and I'd say this with all due respect, I don't think he loves all of our subsidy reductions with respect to the solar and battery restrictions that we have in there gutting the Inflation Reduction Act. But also in fairness to him, I think he's an equal opportunity basher of subsidies. I think you'd say, look, if you can get rid of all the subsidies, including carbon sequestration, which we didn't do, I think he would agree that, you know, if you can do it fairly, he probably supports that. So, look, Elon's doing great. DOGE was a great thing. And I appreciate him speaking truth when the world needs to hear truth, that we need to be more aggressive on spending.' Jimmy and Rep. Roy also discuss the legal hurdles the Trump administration has faced during its effort to deport criminal illegal aliens. Listen to the podcast to hear their full conversation!
Axios
18 minutes ago
- Axios
New ruling revives effort to cut Nashville's Metro Council in half
A Tennessee appeals court has revived state Republicans' effort to cut the size of Nashville's 40-member Metro Council in half. Why it matters: The 2-1 decision released Tuesday reverses a lower court ruling and hands the state a significant victory in its ongoing legal battle with Metro. If the appeals ruling stands, the council would be reduced to 20 members following an upcoming election. The big picture: Republican lawmakers approved a law to shrink the council in 2023 amid a pitched battle between state and local leaders. The law would have shrunk the size of the council after the August 2023 election. Courts initially delayed the law and then ruled that it violated the Tennessee Constitution because it was an attempt to single out Nashville. The latest: The divided appeals court disagreed, saying the law was constitutionally sound because it could apply in Nashville and to future metropolitan councils. "There is simply 'nothing in the language of the constitution to prevent' the Tennessee General Assembly from imposing its own limit on the voting membership of a metropolitan council," the ruling states. What's next: The city could seek a review from the Tennessee Supreme Court. What they're saying:"We are understandably disappointed and concerned about this ruling's implications for local sovereignty," Metro associate law director Allison L. Bussell said in a statement.
