{"id":81261,"date":"2026-03-11T07:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81261"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:53:35","slug":"doj-had-shut-down-probe-of-epstein-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/doj-had-shut-down-probe-of-epstein-ranch\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Had Shut Down Probe Of Epstein Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Mediaite:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rep.\u00a0<strong>James Comer<\/strong>\u00a0(R-KY) said President\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0Department of Justice asked New Mexico investigators to shut down a 2019 probe into a ranch owned by convicted child sex predator\u00a0<strong>Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong>.\u00a0Comer joined Fox News\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Jesse Watters<\/strong>\u00a0on Tuesday evening after New Mexico authorities searched a ranch in the state once owned by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/epstein-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Epstein<\/a>. Victims of Epstein have said they were trafficked at the ranch. This is the second time the property has been investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qualified qualified-1\">The property was being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/09\/us\/epstein-new-mexico-zorro-ranch-search.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">probed<\/a>\u00a0in 2019, but federal investigators reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/207226\/donald-trump-first-administration-investigation-epstein-ranch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took over<\/a>\u00a0and shut things down. Epstein died of an apparent suicide in 2019 while incarcerated awaiting sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773215615\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"DOJ Had Shut Down Probe Of Epstein Ranch\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mediaite: Rep.\u00a0James Comer\u00a0(R-KY) said President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0Department of Justice asked New Mexico investigators to shut down a 2019 probe into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}