Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert quickly logged onto social media Tuesday evening to declare her undying loyalty to Donald Trump, pulling off a swift political pivot just moments after her close ally, Representative Thomas Massie, was kicked out of office in a primary election Trump engineered.
Massie’s loss to Ed Gallrein in Kentucky officially concluded the most expensive House primary in U.S. history, racking up a massive $32 million in ad spending, according to AdImpact. But while Massie was packing his bags, Boebert was busy trying to avoid a similar fate after Trump spent the weekend publicly threatening to tank her career, too.
Taking to social media, the Colorado lawmaker paired some family milestones with a heavy dose of political damage control.
“Tonight I celebrated my son’s graduation! My friend & Co-Chair gave his all in Kentucky! Trump is my President! Jesus is Lord!” Boebert wrote, stacking exclamation points in an apparent bid to get back into the good graces of the Mar-a-Lago loyalty department. “I look forward to a lifetime filled with joy, purpose, and gratitude. May God continue to bless America and the freedoms that make this nation the greatest.”
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Boebert’s sudden burst of enthusiasm arrived just days after Trump completely torched her on Truth Social for committing the ultimate sin: traveling to Kentucky to campaign for Massie.
“Boebert is campaigning for the Worst ‘Republican’ Congressman in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie… and anybody who can be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!” Trump posted on Saturday. He then offered to pull his endorsement of the Colorado congresswoman on the spot, adding, “If the right person came along, it would be my Honor to withdraw that Endorsement, and endorse a good and proper alternative. Just let me know, or announce your Candidacy, and I will be there for you!”
The underlying drama behind this sudden political scramble stems from the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a piece of legislation forced onto the floor via a discharge petition. Former Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned back in January, explicitly blamed the project for ruining their political careers.
“Releasing the Epstein files was our demise,” Greene lamented in her own social media post Tuesday night, calling Massie “a giant among weak pathetic men” and claiming the party is “ruled by the Epstein class.”
Earlier this month, Massie sat down with Tucker Carlson and outlined exactly how much the politicians who signed that petition have paid for trying to look into the affairs of the late, disgraced financier.
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“There’s three women – Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert – who signed their names on that discharge petition and all suffered,” Massie said, claiming Greene and her kids received death threats from the political right. He also alleged that Trump went so far as to veto a vital water infrastructure bill in Colorado just to spite Boebert for signing the petition in the first place.
With Greene gone and Massie defeated, only two of the original four Epstein-file crusaders remain in Congress. While Representative Nancy Mace has somehow managed to fly under Trump’s radar for now, Boebert’s position looked considerably more fragile until Tuesday night’s social media course correction.
Massie had previously tried to defend himself by pointing out that he voted with Trump 90% of the time on major bills like the SAVE Act. However, he quickly learned that the current political standard requires absolute conformity. “It’s only the 10% of the time they’re mad about,” Massie noted shortly before his defeat.
Instead, voters opted for Gallrein, a farmer and former Navy SEAL who knew exactly how to stay on script. “There has never been a more important time to stand behind our president,” Gallrein declared on election eve—a lesson that Boebert apparently took straight to heart.
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