{"id":533466,"date":"2021-05-21T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=533466"},"modified":"2021-05-21T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:20:45","slug":"like-the-romeo-and-juliet-story-anthony-bouchard-primary-challenger-to-liz-cheney-defends-impregnating-a-14-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-the-romeo-and-juliet-story-anthony-bouchard-primary-challenger-to-liz-cheney-defends-impregnating-a-14-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like The Romeo And Juliet Story\u2019: Anthony Bouchard, Primary Challenger To Liz Cheney, Defends Impregnating A 14-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flike-the-romeo-and-juliet-story-anthony-bouchard-primary-challenger-to-liz-cheney-defends-impregnating-a-14-year-old%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=533466&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican House candidate Anthony Bouchard acknowledged that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18 in a Thursday interview with the Casper Star-Tribune, and defended his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard, a Wyoming state legislator <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/20\/wyoming-state-senator-primary-liz-cheney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seeking to oust Rep. Liz Cheney<\/a> in 2022, first revealed his past actions in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1597992670461634\/videos\/1132103807288961\/?__so__=channel_tab&amp;__rv__=all_videos_card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook live video<\/a> saying that he had a relationship with the girl, but omitted her age. He said that he made the revelation to beat the press after learning that some were looking into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing that they look at things so negatively,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cSo bottom line is it\u2019s a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant. You\u2019ve heard these stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it\u2019s like the Romeo and Juliet story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of pressure. Pressure to abort the baby,\u201d he added. \u201cI got to tell you, I wasn\u2019t going to do it and neither was she. And there was pressure to have her banished from their family. Just pressure. Pressure to go hide somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard said that he married the girl who, <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/us-house-candidate-bouchard-says-he-impregnated-14-year-old-when-he-was-18\/article_c3996062-e6ad-5027-96a9-1bcd0f832eda.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Star-Tribune<\/a>, was 15 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I could see as the right thing to do was to get married and take care of them,\u201d he said in the video.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7197394\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7197394\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7197394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230843891-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230843891-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230843891-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230843891-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230843891-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230843891-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230843891-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7197394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard speaks after a rally with Rep. Matt Gaetz. (Michael Ciaglo\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said that the woman, whom the Star-Tribune chose to keep anonymous, \u201chad problems in another relationship,\u201d and they divorced three years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, this thing ended in a kind of bitter divorce,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cAll the odds were against us. We later became friends. She had problems in another relationship. Her dad committed suicide\u2026 For whatever reason she decided to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard said that he was aware of a political opposition research firm that was investigating the matter, and that a British media reporter had called him inquiring about it.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/20\/wyoming-state-senator-primary-liz-cheney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Wyoming State Representative Challenging Liz Cheney)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if you look at him,\u201d Bouchard said, \u201che\u2019s all part of that whole investigative team that smears people.\u201d Bouchard\u2019s campaign did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard vowed to stay in the race, which has drawn multiple candidates seeking to replace Cheney after her continued <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/12\/donald-trump-responds-liz-cheney-ouster-republican-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticism<\/a> of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat also tells you I\u2019m in the lead, because they wouldn\u2019t be doing this to me if I wasn\u2019t in the lead,\u201d Bouchard said. \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t be doing this if I wasn\u2019t the front-runner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to stay in this race. We\u2019re going to continue to raise money,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican House candidate Anthony Bouchard acknowledged that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18 in a Thursday interview with the Casper Star-Tribune, and defended his actions.Bouchard, a Wyoming &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312591,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230843891-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Like The Romeo And Juliet Story\u2019: Anthony Bouchard, Primary Challenger To Liz Cheney, Defends Impregnating A 14-Year-Old","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230843891-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Like The Romeo And Juliet Story\u2019: Anthony Bouchard, Primary Challenger To Liz Cheney, Defends Impregnating A 14-Year-Old","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}