PRAGMATIC ISSUES

America woke up today to something between a political earthquake and a badly written soap opera rerun. The Epstein files are finally being pried open like a rusted lockbox that every powerful man in America swore had been “lost in the move.” And suddenly Donald Trump is out here on a runway looking like he’s either mid-sermon or mid-tantrum while Michael Wolff publicly swats away questions about what Trump knew and when he knew it.

The panic wafting from the Trump camp is so thick you could slice it with one of his gold-plated steak knives. Every time investigators take a step closer to sunlight Trump takes a step closer to shouting that the deep state is planting Epstein’s emails in his sock drawer.

And then something truly biblical occurred.

Lauren Boebert of Colorado

Yes

That Lauren Boebert suddenly broke ranks with her own party and sided with Democrats on releasing the Epstein documents.

You could hear jaws dropping from Grand Junction to Washington. Conservatives were so shocked they forgot to blame Joe Biden for a full five minutes which must be some kind of record.

This is the same Lauren Boebert who has treated the word bipartisan like it was a liberal conspiracy to turn everyone into coastal vegans. The same Lauren Boebert who has spent years accusing Democrats of everything short of summoning demons through wind turbines. And today she wakes up and decides transparency is patriotic.

The Republican leadership reacted exactly as expected which is to say not at all because they are too busy calculating whose name might show up in the unsealed files. You can practically see members of Congress silently mouthing prayers that the public never sees their flight logs or visitor lists.

Democrats want the files released because justice requires it.

Republicans want the files released because they think it will hurt someone on the left.

Lauren Boebert wants the files released because she needs to distract Colorado voters from every other headline with her name on it.

And Trump

Well

Trump wants the files buried deeper than the nuclear football.

The Epstein scandal has always been America’s worst kept secret. A bipartisan parade of wealthy powerful men circling the same predator like it was some kind of depraved networking event proves only one thing. Our political class is absolutely terrified of the public knowing the truth about how close Epstein came to all of them.

Which brings us back to that photo of Trump screaming toward a gray sky by his plane. The man looks like he just learned the unsealed emails contain something worse than kompromat.

Honest accountability.

Trump’s orbit is spinning. He is used to controlling the narrative with lies bluster and pure force of personality. But Epstein is one chapter even his followers cannot meme away.

And the moment Lauren Boebert joined Democrats on the release vote the entire façade cracked because it signals something Trump hates more than subpoenas

Republicans starting to save their own skins instead of his.

Boebert is not a hero. She is not suddenly a champion of truth. She is doing what every politician in trouble eventually does. Trying to look on the right side of history while hoping no one asks why she was not there sooner.

Still her defection matters. It signals that even in the MAGA-industrial complex there are limits to how long one can protect a man whose relationship to Epstein has always generated far more smoke than anyone in his party wants to admit.

If the files come out and the public sees even a fraction of what insiders have whispered for years the Republican Party will face a reckoning so explosive it will make Watergate look like a parking violation.

And Donald Trump knows it.

That is why he is shouting on a runway today.

That is why Michael Wolff is fielding questions like he is testifying before Saint Peter.

And that is why Lauren Boebert is the most unlikely Democratic ally Colorado has ever seen.

The truth may just finally be coming and for once the American people might finally get to read it word for word.

But then again in this administration what we may end up seeing is a carefully and heavily edited version you know like BBC news edited version.