November 13, 2025 11:27 AM UTC

Bravo, Lauren Boebert

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• by: Colorado Pols

Welp, there’s a headline we didn’t expect to see on this here website. But it is absolutely warranted for Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Windsor).

President Trump and staffers tried not once…not twice…but thrice to convince Boebert to take her name off of a discharge petition that would force a vote in the House of Representatives on requiring the Justice Department to release the full tranche of documents that have come to be known as the “Epstein Files.” On Wednesday, officials even brought Boebert into the Situation Room at the White House for a last-ditch effort to convince her to back away from a position that she has espoused publicly for as long as anyone has been paying attention to what she has to say.

But as Caitlyn Kim reports for Colorado Public Radio, Boebert didn’t budge:

Despite a last-minute push from President Donald Trump, GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert kept her name on a discharge petition that would demand the full release of investigative files around convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein…

…Boebert is one of four Republicans who signed the bipartisan discharge petition led by GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California to force the Justice Department to release all the files.

Boebert, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia all signed onto the petition on September 2. It remained one vote short until Wednesday afternoon when Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona was sworn in and added her name.

Massie and Khanna sat together during the swearing in and stood up and clapped when it was announced she’d be the 218th signature. There were also two Epstein victims in the gallery watching.

Once a petition reaches 218 votes, it is frozen and no names can be added or removed.

Trump is quite clearly terrified that more information is forthcoming about his involvement — or at the very least his knowledge — of a years-long sex trafficking program perpetrated by deceased billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Some of the information that has already been released this week contradicts Trump’s repeated assertions that he hadn’t spoken with Epstein in 15 years.

These are not the rantings of a man who is indifferent about next week’s vote to release the Epstein Files:

But let’s get back to Boebert. For all of her (many) faults, she absolutely deserves praise for doing the right thing here. We can’t disagree with Kyle Clark of 9News:

COMMENTARY: It appears Rep. Lauren Boebert did a brave thing today and deserves all our thanks. #copolitics

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— Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social) November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM

To be clear, Boebert’s firm stance on the Epstein Files is barely a rounding error in her overall karmic ledger. But standing up for sex trafficking victims is still more than her Republican colleagues from Colorado (Reps. Jeff Hurd, Jeff Crank, and Gabe Evans) could manage themselves.

Boebert’s bravery is particularly stark in comparison to Crank, who refused to sign his name to the discharge petition despite personal lobbying from the brother of deceased Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, who just so happens to live in Crank’s Colorado Springs district.

We’ll find out next week if Hurd, Crank, and Evans can manage enough courage to vote on the discharge petition in favor of releasing the Epstein Files after publicly claiming for months that they support the idea

But for today, kudos to Lauren Boebert. May we have a reason to write this sentence again someday soon.