‘Facts Change’: Lauren Boebert Questions If U.S. Moon Landing Was Real in Wild Interview
Controversial Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) joined The Blaze’s Alex Stein for a wide-ranging discussion that regularly touched on some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories that occupy many on the far-right of American politics.
Stein, best known as a provocateur and troll, told Boebert at one point, “I think nuclear weapons are a lie!”
She joked in reply, “Where’s my tin foil?”
Later, the two discussed the moon landing, “I wasn’t alive either when we went to the moon–” Boebert began as Stein cut in, “And that was fake too. Thank you! No, time out, Congresswoman. Now we really can talk. Now, now I’m– now we’re vibing. First of all.”
Boebert quipped, “Oh, God, here we go. Denver Post, ready for this headline?”
“Real quick, 1969 through 1972, the Apollo Moon missions, they were able to go through the Van Allen radiation belt. But let me just tell you, right now we have the International Space Station that is roughly 200–” Stein replied.
“It’s not beyond the Van Allen radiation belt, it’s within it–” Boebert replied as Stein clarified, “The moon is past the Van Allen radiation belt.”
“No, no, no– the International Space Station,” replied Boebert, as Stein continued:
There’s a hole– oh, yeah, yeah. No, the International Space… So the International Space Station is roughly 200 miles from the surface of Earth. Now the moon is roughly 257,000 miles away. So this is a hundred times the distance, or what is 200 divided by 250? Yeah, about whatever that is. It’s a thousand times the distance.
“Baby, you got a GED. We don’t need numbers. It’s fine,” Boebert said as Stein struggled with his math.
“This isn’t a financial seminar. My point is, we were able to go to the moon 1,000 times farther in 1969, but the current technology that we have, we cannot go past low-Earth orbit. Even Barack Obama said that, and that is the International Space Station. And half the time, we can’t even go to the damn International Space Station because Joe Biden doesn’t want to do auto-pay and give him, you know, an evacuation right out of there. So I think the moon landing’s provably false. Am I smoking too much Delta-9, Congresswoman?” Stein asked.
“You know, Alex, that’s an interesting concept, and maybe we can have a classified briefing at some point. But I…” Boebert replied as Stein agreed, “I would love that.”
“Certainly, I love to explore all the different things. You know, Tucker Carlson once thought that Building 7 just collapsed,” Boebert continued, citing the widely debunked conspiracy theory that the U.S. government destroyed one of the buildings in the World Trade Center complex on 9/11.
“And you know, now he says emphatically that he was a part of the propaganda that led to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, you know, I mean, things change, facts change,” Boebert continued, adding:
That’s why I love Jesus, I love the Bible, because that is truth and that is everlasting, and that’s something that will never change. God is not a liar, but you know, there is a father of lies, and the Bible talks all about him. And unfortunately, we’ve seen time and time again where politicians are in office and deceive the American public.
And so I don’t know, have we been beyond the Van Allen radiation belt? Maybe?
If so, I would like to know why it’s taken so long to get back through it again. But, you know, here we are, and we’ll see what Artemis and the Orion spacecraft have to do when they try to take a crewed spaceship back out there in just a year or two.
Watch the clip above.
