Social media users have reported Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to the FBI after she fired off a tweet saying “we need to terminate this Presidency” in an apparent jab at Joe Biden.
“We need to terminate this Presidency,” she wrote. “End quote. Repeat the line,” she added.
Boebert’s tweet comes 2 days after the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot by a lone gunman on Friday.
It’s unclear if Boebert was alluding to remarks made by the president last week in which he misspoke while talking about reproductive rights.
“Ten years old and she was forced to travel out of the state to Indiana,” Biden said, “to seek to terminate the presidency [pregnancy] and maybe save her life.”
However, the Colorado Republican did not correctly quote the president, leading many commenters to forward her tweet to the FBI, the Secret Service and the Justice Department for review.
Read Boebert’s tweet and some of the reactions below.
We need to terminate this Presidency.
End quote. Repeat the line.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) July 10, 2022
sounds like a threat@SecretService, you might want to look into this
— Rev. Dr. Brun Brun, Templum Ursi 🐻 (@BrunTheBear) July 10, 2022
Several days after Prime Minister Abe's life was terminated by an assassin, @RepBoebert @laurenboebert is calling for the termination of an American presidency @FBI @FBIDenver
— Colorado Bliss (@RckyMtn5280) July 10, 2022
Report this tweet. This sounds like a threat to the President of the United States of America.
— Gary (@gscucci) July 10, 2022
Attn: @fbi @SecretService
— The Nicest Boy on this Website and App (@bikivindaloo) July 10, 2022
Attn: @SecretService
— Pro-Choice Jersey Craig (@Jersey_Craig) July 10, 2022
Actually, it was just reported that the FBI is now looking into this tweet. Ms. Boebert will be getting a call soon.
— CC🌻☮️ (@w_cynthia) July 10, 2022
Others mocked the Colorado lawmaker, calling her unhinged and trash.
do you have any idea just how unhinged you sound
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) July 10, 2022
— nsod☮️ (@Jingles4848O) July 10, 2022
US Representatives that requested a pardon after January 6th:
👉 Jim Jordan
👉 Marjorie Taylor Greene
👉 Matt Gaetz
👉 Lauren Boebert
👉 Paul Gosar
👉 Mo Brooks
👉 Louie Gohmert
👉 Scott Perry— Lara reads banned books in Florida (@MadeInTheUSANJ) July 10, 2022
Were you willing to plead guilty for the pardon that you requested after January 6, Lauren?
— Lara reads banned books in Florida (@MadeInTheUSANJ) July 10, 2022
Fox News is now calling Biden senile for saying “end of quote” while giving a speech.
That would be news to… all of these Republicans. pic.twitter.com/vveR7ec8Zw
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) July 11, 2022
— Muse (@DonnaMaeMuse2) July 10, 2022
