Rep.James Comer(R-KY) said PresidentDonald Trump’sDepartment of Justice asked New Mexico investigators to shut down a 2019 probe into a ranch owned by convicted child sex predatorJeffrey Epstein.
Comer joined Fox News’sJesse Watterson Tuesday evening after New Mexico authorities searched a ranch in the state once owned byEpstein. Victims of Epstein have said they were trafficked at the ranch. This is the second time the property has been investigated.
The property was beingprobedin 2019, but federal investigators reportedlytook overand shut things down. Epstein died of an apparent suicide in 2019 while incarcerated awaiting sex trafficking charges.
Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, said on Tuesday:
The federal government asked New Mexico to stop their investigation, I believe, back in 2019 of that ranch. So there’s just so many questions about how the government failed, the victims and how government failed in trying to prosecute Epstein sooner. I mean, this whole thing doesn’t make sense. Everyone has conspiracy theories on how Epstein was able to get away with it. Was it because he had powerful friends? Was it because he was an agent? We don’t know, but we’re gonna find out and I’m glad that they’re on the ground now in New Mexico searching that property.
“Congressman, you said in 2019 the government told New Mexico authorities to stand down in investigating the ranch,” Watters replied. “Do you know what branch of the government?”
It was the Department of Justice, I believe. And I believe it was because they had– I believe, it perhaps was Southern District of New York because they had taken over the investigation at that point. So, again these are questions that we have. We want to get the answers.
Zachary Leeman covered pop culture and politics at outlets such as Breitbart, LifeZette, BizPac Review, HollywoodinToto, and others. He is the author of the novel Nigh. He joined Mediaite in 2022.
Source: Drudge Report
