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U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard had a relationship with and impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, he told the Star-Tribune late Thursday, hours after he disclosed the relationship in a Facebook Live video to his supporters.
Bouchard, who did not specify the girl's age in the video, said he went public with the information to get ahead of the story after learning that people were investigating it in opposition to his candidacy. A Wyoming state senator since 2017, Bouchard has risen in prominence since announcing he would challenge Rep. Liz Cheney following her vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump.
"So, bottom line, it's a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant," he said in the Facebook Live video. "You've heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it's like the Romeo and Juliet story."
[They wed the following year.] They got divorced approximately three years later. Bouchard’s ex-wife killed herself when she was 20, he said.
Bouchard said he decided to post a video to get ahead of a story about his previous marriage that he anticipated would be published in the near future.
[A story about the pregnancy was published in the Daily Fail.] It cited "an unnamed Republican operative" who is "in the Donald Trump faction of the party."
Bouchard, who did not specify the girl's age in the video, said he went public with the information to get ahead of the story after learning that people were investigating it in opposition to his candidacy. A Wyoming state senator since 2017, Bouchard has risen in prominence since announcing he would challenge Rep. Liz Cheney following her vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump.
"So, bottom line, it's a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant," he said in the Facebook Live video. "You've heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it's like the Romeo and Juliet story."
[They wed the following year.] They got divorced approximately three years later. Bouchard’s ex-wife killed herself when she was 20, he said.
Bouchard said he decided to post a video to get ahead of a story about his previous marriage that he anticipated would be published in the near future.
[A story about the pregnancy was published in the Daily Fail.] It cited "an unnamed Republican operative" who is "in the Donald Trump faction of the party."