We Counted Every Blink. Beetlejuice Boebert Got Caught.

When does Boebert lie? When her lips are moving.

There is a small body of behavioral research that political consultants do not want their candidates to read.

It is about eyelids.

When a person lies, the way they blink changes. Not a little. Measurably. And it has been documented in peer-reviewed psychology journals since the 1970s.

We ran the numbers on a recent Lauren Boebert sit-down with Newsmax (the topic was Donald Trump’s threats and the Thomas Massie endorsement). We tagged every blink. There were 138 of them in roughly 9 minutes on camera. Her rate worked out to 38 blinks per minute. Honest people sit closer to 15 to 20.