February 10, 2026 10:02 AM UTC

Boebert Once Again Big Mad About Jeffrey Epstein

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• by: Colorado Pols

Last week, in response to ongoing discontent over the monstrously problematic release of the voluminous files pertaining to deceased billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department announced that members of Congress would be granted access to the unredacted files beginning yesterday–under tight restrictions that included no photos or staff present and only handwritten notes. But as MS NOW reports, the Trump administration is still hiding lots of names…and not the names of victims like they were supposed to:

“There’s still a lot that’s redacted — even in what we’re seeing, we’re seeing redacted versions. I thought we were supposed to see the unredacted versions,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told reporters outside the DOJ headquarters.

Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. — the co-sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that forced the DOJ to release the files after President Donald Trump signed it into law in November — said some of the documents appeared to have been redacted by the FBI or grand juries before they arrived at the Justice Department. But their law requires those original materials be unredacted…

“They have been protecting some of these men,” Khanna said. “Maybe it was not intentionally, but the law is very clear. They need to comply with the law.”

While three-quarters of Colorado’s Republican delegation in Congress meekly toed the administration line on the Epstein files, including Rep. Jeff Crank who ignored the pleas of survivor families who live in his district, Rep. Lauren Boebert earned bipartisan praise for refusing to give in to pressure to abandon the discharge petition effort that ultimately succeeded, and was signed by Donald Trump despite his personal months-long lobbying against it. But after the deadline in the legislation to release the files came and went with little more than excuses from the administration, Boebert appeared to abandon the cause, declaring she did not “give a rip about Epstein.”

After getting a look at the at least partially unredacted files yesterday, as Newsweek reports, Boebert is once again hopping mad at the Dear Leader:

“I think Ghislaine Maxwell should get more time and she should definitely be in a harsher prison than what she’s in. It’s absolutely disgusting,” Boebert said.

Boebert made the comments after she and other lawmakers visited a Justice Department office on Monday to look through unredacted versions of the files on Epstein that the department released to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.

Boebert indicated she would be back to view more files on Tuesday. She said there are “folks who are definitely implicated and co-conspirators” and “I don’t think everyone there that was talking about underage girls being trafficked are victims.” [Pols emphasis]

Despite the lengthy delay in releasing the files in plain violation of the law passed by Congress, victims and their advocates quickly discovered that the redactions intended to protect victims in thousands of cases failed to do so, and instead many redactions protected the men who associated with Epstein during the years he was running his sex trafficking operation. The apparent failure to protect victims, while succeeding in concealing individuals who were at the very least not victims of abuse, puts the capstone on a yearlong epic disaster for the Trump administration that began with their botched “release” of old information to a gaggle of right-wing influencers and ended with a historic loss of confidence in the administration’s honesty.

Boebert’s remarks yesterday staked out a hard position against any sort of clemency for Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, who has announced she is willing to give testimony “exonerating” Donald Trump in exchange for her release. Maxwell has already been moved in exchange for her “cooperation”–with the Justice Department, not Congress–from the sort of prison typical for her conviction to a “Club Fed” minimum security prison camp she reportedly greatly prefers. Boebert is now on record calling that preferential treatment “disgusting.”

After all her mutual enmity with now ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, it would be ironic indeed to see Boebert join MTG as MAGA excommunicates. But as of today, Boebert is back on a collision course with her former political idol and mentor.