Who is Anthony Bouchard and why is he trending?
ANTHONY Bouchard is a United States Senator from Wyoming.
On May 21, 2021, Bouchard acknowledged an uncomfortable truth about his past in an interview.
Who is Anthony Bouchard?
Anthony Bouchard is an American politician serving as a member of the Wyoming Senate from the 6th district.
Elected in November 2016, he assumed office in January 2017.
He is a member of the Republican party.
Bouchard attended the Florida State College at Jacksonville. Prior to entering politics, Bouchard was a businessman, automotive technician, and welder.
Aside from his career in politics, Bouchard has been a real estate agent since 2017. He and his wife also own and operate a septic-draining business.
Why is he trending?
Anthony Bouchard began trending after he acknowledged that he impregnanted a 14-year-old girl when he was just 18.
Bouchard first revealed the relationship in a Facebook Live video on May 21.
“It’s amazing that they look at things so negatively. So bottom line is it’s a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant,” Bouchard said.
“You’ve heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it’s like the Romeo and Juliet story.”
He claimed he wanted to tell the story himself after he caught wind that a political opposition research firm had begun looking into the matter.
“A lot of pressure. Pressure to abort a baby. I got to tell you, I wasn’t 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.”
Bouchard said he eventually married the girl, who was then 15 at the time according to the Star-Tribune.
In his Facebook video, Bouchard explained that “the only thing I could see as the right thing to do was to get married and take care of them.”
The couple divorced three years after they wed.
He went on to say that his ex-wife had later died by suicide prompted by problems from a relationship after him.
What did Anthony Bouchard say about the ‘investigation’ into his past?
In his Facebook video, Bouchard labeled the investigative efforts into his personal life as “dirty politics” by the “establishment swamp.”
“We know the company that started this investigation,” he said on Facebook.
“It’s a political opposition research company. We know who they are. And then it turned into a U.K. media reporter, who called me. But if you look at him, he’s all part of that whole investigative team that smears people.”
On January 20, 2021, Bouchard announced he would challenge Liz Cheney in the 2022 United States House of Representatives election primaries, following her vote for the second impeachment of Donald Trump.
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He said he was a “front-runner” for the role.
“I’ve heard reports over a week ago calling family members, even offering to compensate them for anything they would give up on me. That’s dirty,” Bouchard said.
“That also tells you I’m in the lead, because they wouldn’t be doing this to me if I wasn’t in the lead. They wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t the front-runner.”