{"id":534548,"date":"2021-05-21T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=534548"},"modified":"2021-05-21T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:36:18","slug":"cheney-primary-challenger-says-he-impregnated-14-year-old-as-18-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cheney-primary-challenger-says-he-impregnated-14-year-old-as-18-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney Primary Challenger Says He Impregnated 14-Year-Old As 18-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\">18<\/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%2Fcheney-primary-challenger-says-he-impregnated-14-year-old-as-18-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=534548&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bouchard.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Wyoming State Senator and U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard, who is running a primary challenge against incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), disclosed late Thursday that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18 years old and living in Florida, <\/span><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\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to The Casper Star-Tribune.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bouchard came forward about the pregnancy in a Facebook Live <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SenatorAnthonyBouchard\/videos\/1132103807288961\/\"><span>video<\/span><\/a><span> on Thursday \u2014 purportedly in an effort to get ahead of the story \u2014 but did not mention how old the girl was when the pregnancy happened. Bouchard did say, however, \u201cshe was a little younger than me so it\u2019s like the Romeo and Juliet story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The two married when she was 15 years old, with permission from the girl\u2019s mother, and were together for about three years before they divorced, Bouchard told the Star Tribune in an interview after the Facebook video was posted. Two years later, when his ex-wife was 20-years-old, she killed herself.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the Facebook video, titled \u201cSenator Bouchard Takes On The Fake News Media,\u201d the state senator said his political opponents were going back \u201calmost forty years\u201d to dig up \u201csomething that happened in my youth.\u201d The video focused, in part, on his and her&nbsp; unwillingness to go through with an abortion, and his decision to get married, which he said was \u201cpretty scary\u201d due to his age.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Cheney\u2019s office told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/anthony-bouchard-14-girl-pregnant-liz-cheney-challenger\">Fox News<\/a> her team had \u201cabsolutely no involvement\u201d in digging into the pregnancy story. Bouchard he told the Star Tribune later that he didn\u2019t believe Cheney\u2019s team was involved, reports the news agency, although he did tag Cheney in a Twitter post when he shared the video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.4957264957265\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Investigators have been hounding my family for weeks and now the liberal fake news is coming out with a hit piece about my teenage years. This is why good people avoid running for office. I won\u2019t back down, Swamp! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLizCheney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepLizCheney<\/a> Bring it! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gaVSm6MkZM\">https:\/\/t.co\/gaVSm6MkZM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Anthony Bouchard for Congress Against Cheney (@AnthonyBouchard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnthonyBouchard\/status\/1395581975885320198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Bouchard <\/span><span>said he raised the child, a boy, on his own after his ex-wife died, and was \u201cproud to have made pro-life decisions when so young when faced with the pressures.\u201d He also said that his son has since made \u201csome wrong choices in his life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe\u2019s almost become my estranged son,\u201d said Bouchard. \u201cSome of the things that he\u2019s got going on his life, I certainly don\u2019t approve of them. But I\u2019m not going to abandon him. I still love him. Just like when he was born.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bouchard said the divorce was \u201cbitter,\u201d but the two became friends afterward. He also said he didn\u2019t understand why she took her own life, but said that she entered another relationship after their divorce and that her dad had recently died, also by suicide.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He then turned his attention to the people he suggests were digging into his past, asking, \u201cCan\u2019t we let people rest in peace?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cQuite frankly, is this the worst you got on me,\u201d Bouchard asked in the Facebook video posted Thursday, later noting that he plans to stay in the race for the House of Representatives.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a damn shame that they\u2019ll stop good people running for office, and I\u2019m not going to let them do it to me. You bring it on \u2014 do as much as you want \u2014 because I\u2019m no backing out of this race,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously reported, Bouchard was the first lawmaker to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/liz-cheney-faces-first-primary-challenger-as-gop-backlash-continues-over-impeachment-vote\">file a primary challenge<\/a> against Cheney following the impeachment vote. Others have since jumped in the race.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyoming State Senator and U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard, who is running a primary challenge against incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), disclosed late Thursday that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312639,"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\/Bouchard.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Cheney Primary Challenger Says He Impregnated 14-Year-Old As 18-Year-Old","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534548","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\/Bouchard.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Cheney Primary Challenger Says He Impregnated 14-Year-Old As 18-Year-Old","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534548","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=534548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}