July 22, 2025 12:24 PM UTC

Johnson Shuts Down House To Stop Epstein Vote While Boebert Appears To Cave

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• by: Colorado Pols

CBS News reports that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has pinballed in recent days between lip service to releasing the list of clients of deceased pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein regardless of who it might implicate and expressing “trust” that the administration will “do the right thing” after Donald Trump tried and spectacularly failed last week to put what he now calls the “Epstein hoax” in the rearview mirror, is dismissing the House early to stop a vote on the subject from taking place:

The House will leave town early for its monthlong summer break as members clash over the release of files related to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The lower chamber was originally scheduled to be in session through Thursday, but votes were scrapped as Democrats and some Republicans push for a floor vote to force the release of the Epstein files. Lawmakers will now head home until Sept. 2, after votes on Wednesday afternoon.

On Monday night, the Epstein controversy disrupted another House Rules Committee meeting — the last hurdle for most legislation before it gets a floor vote — when Democrats threatened to make Republicans take more uncomfortable votes on Epstein-related amendments.

The committee instead recessed for the remainder of the week, blocking the House from passing legislation with a simple majority.

After holding out past Trump’s demand to purge Jeffrey Epstein from the MAGA memory banks and continuing to call for a special prosecutor to take another look at Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the case, Colorado’s foremost Epstein conspiracy-familiar congresscritter Rep. Lauren Boebert has gone completely silent on the matter since late last week–just so happening to coincide with an out-of-the-blue endorsement by Trump of a 4th term for Boebert Friday evening!

You might be asking yourself, why would Trump choose a Friday evening after a week of absolute hell in the press over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein to endorse a member of Congress in a safe seat who was at least up until that point refusing to let the “Epstein hoax” go?

Before you could even ask the question, Boebert had the answer:

Assuming Boebert leaves town quietly, we finally have a promise Boebert intends to keep. To Trump, that is–not her millions of followers.

And that, gentle reader, is how one of the early 21st Century’s greatest scandals winks out of existence.