One morning last November, Lauren Boebert was ushered unexpectedly into the Situation Room. Past administrations have used the highly secured White House complex to confront the Cuban Missile Crisis and watch the Osama bin Laden raid. The emergency on this particular Wednesday was Jeffrey Epstein. The Colorado congresswoman had joined a handful of Republicans in calling for the release of the government’s files on the late sex offender, and a trio of top Trump officials wanted her to drop it.

“Attorney General Pam Bondi, in her sweetest southern charm, opened up and was trying to tell me how much she cared about the victims,” Boebert recalled in an interview. “And how she has stood for victims, fought for victims her whole life, and she appreciated what I was doing.” Boebert was unmoved. “‘With all due respect, we’re in this room because of your actions — or, rather, inactions,’” she told Bondi, who was joined by FBI director Kash Patel and future Attorney General Todd Blanche. (Bondi and the Department of Justice did not return requests for comment.)

“There wasn’t a full court press against me after that meeting,” Boebert added, because they knew “I wasn’t going to come off of it.”

Of the four House Republicans who pushed the Epstein vote over the line, Boebert is the last one standing ahead of the 2026 midterms. Thomas Massie of Kentucky lost his primary to a Trump-endorsed opponent. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia resigned on the eve of the fifth anniversary of January 6. Nancy Mace of South Carolina opted not to run for reelection, finishing fifth in the state’s gubernatorial primary instead. President Donald Trump threatened to pull his endorsement of Boebert in a Truth Social post earlier this year, after she campaigned with Massie, but he didn’t follow through.

“I don’t even know if the president wrote that,” Boebert said.

Who did, Natalie Harp?

“No, no. Natalie is a doll. Lots of people suggest lots of things,” she said. “I made a very clear statement that I am friends with President Trump and friends with Thomas Massie, and I understood the consequences.” She acknowledged that Massie “makes people mad,” but he isn’t the only one. “I make people mad. President Trump makes people mad,” she said. “We all make people mad.”

Boebert has infuriated Democrats for most of her nearly six years in Congress. “Today is 1776,” she tweeted on January 6, hours before rioters stormed the Capitol, setting the tone for a wild and combative first term that would find her clashing with Capitol police over her desire to carry a gun in the building and famously heckling Joe Biden at the State of the Union — as well as her colleagues at a congressional baseball game. “They’re stealing bases like they stole the election,” she shouted, before hopping over a fence and running onto the field to celebrate a Republican victory. Another year, she was allegedly caught vaping in the stands, a violation of Nationals Park policy. Last year she described a Black colleague, Al Green, of “shaking his pimp came” when he heckled the president at the State of the Union.

It has become a liberal dream to knock her out of office; Democrat Adam Frisch came........

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