Cheney GOP Challenger Says Lady He Impregnated When She Was 14 and He Was 18 Was ‘Just like the Romeo and Juliet Story’

A Republican lawmaker from Wyoming who presents a challenge US Representative Liz Cheney announced on Thursday evening that he had impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18. Senator Anthony Bouchard told supporters it was “like the story of Romeo and Juliet”.

He got the girl’s age in his 13-minute live Facebook video (below) entitled “Senator Bouchard is taking over the fake news media!” Not disclosed. but later the Star told Tribune that the girl was 14 years old. He married her when she was 15 and he was 19, reports the Tribune. It ended, he says, in a “bitter” divorce three years later. She died of suicide when she was 20 years old.

“Bottom line, it’s a story when I was young, two teenagers, a girl getting pregnant,” he told followers who watched his Facebook Live video while holding back her age. “You have heard these stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it’s like the story of Romeo and Juliet. “

He also bragged about marrying the girl who was not named instead of having an abortion.

“I’m proud to have made life choices at such a young age,” he says.

“Lots of pressure. Pressure to abort a baby. I have to tell you. I didn’t mean to do it, and neither did she,” Bouchard said. “And there was pressure to have her banished from her family. Just pressure. Pressure, yourself to hide somewhere. And the only thing I could see as the right thing to do was get married and take care of him. “

Bouchard says, “I don’t want to hide anything,” claiming he wants “everyone to know,” while admitting that he brought the information public because reporters and an opposition research firm asked him questions. He also says that the Cheney campaign was not involved.

“You will see this and want to share it with everyone you know. I’m dodging a bullet from the fake news media and you can hear all about it here! “Bouchard writes on Facebook.

“This is really a message about how dirty politics is,” adds Bouchard. “You won’t stop at anything, man, when you are at the top and when you are someone who is out of control, you are someone who works for the people. They will come after you. That’s why good people don’t run for office. “

Bouchard ran unsuccessfully for the first time in 2012 and unsuccessfully again in 2014 before being elected to the Senate in 2016.

In 2009, he founded Wyoming Gun Owners, which according to a July 2020 article has become a dog of attack against state lawmakers, a lobby group in Wyoming. “

Here is Sen. Bouchard’s video: