New Mexico's Epstein investigation is being obstructed by Trump's DOJ, officials claim

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Friday 10 July 2026 13:49 EDT


New Mexico officials are accusing Donald Trump’s Department of Justice of obstructing access to documents connected to the federal government’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein as the state performs its own probe into the sex offender’s alleged crimes at his Zorro Ranch property.

The state’s Attorney General Raúl Torrez is demanding immediate access to files requested by his office several months ago and suggested the Justice Department is now withholding those records despite what he called “verbal assurances” from the federal government.

New Mexico’s Department of Justice is investigating Epstein’s alleged crimes at the Santa Fe County property that was once owned by the wealthy and well-connected sex offender.

Torrez’s office requested records from the Justice Department more than 130 days ago, he wrote in a Thursday letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. But “access to the requested records has not been granted” and “no substantive response has been provided,” he wrote. His office “views this length of time as an unreasonable delay under any rule of reason,” Torrez added.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/new-mexico-zorro-ranch-epstein-trump-doj-b3012828.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Trump hasn't just turned the DoJ into his personal lawyers; it's now a mob doing his bidding

and if that means interfering with investigations into his friend Epstein's pedophile crimes, that's just what he wants.

[rampartd]

4. new mex can charge with obstructing justice

i did not think they would find bodies. the ranch had an incinerator and 300 gal of sulphuric acid. but this much obstruction indicates foul play.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. the just us league

[purr-rat beauty]

2. They're not even hiding it

This is blatant obstruction of justice...well, it's been for some time now

[Vinca]

3. That's pretty much a guarantee there's a body or two buried there.

[Ocelot II]

5. Somebody at DoJ *literally* knows where the bodies are buried.

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. HOLY COW!!!! I am so SHOCKED by this!!

actually, it's exactly what I would expect.

[Cherokee100]

8. If he is innocent

If he is innocent, why not let the investigations, prove it.

[Botany]

11. Just like

The Mueller Report which hasn't been released with out the reductions.

The tape and complete transcript of Trump's call to Zelenskyy where he asked
him to make up stuff about Biden.

Trump not giving a DNA sample to prove his innocence with E. Jean Carroll.

The 4 or 5 people who were going to give
testimony about Trump related stuff who
wound up dead and or missing.

Trump telling European nations not to
look into Epstein.

And on and on. THE MAN IS A LIFELONG CRIMINAL. Who is being protected by rich and powerful forces. He should have been in prison years ago for all the Russian Mob
money he laundered through his real estate.

[ChicagoTeamster]

9. Didn't Trump's DOJ interfere the last time Trump was in office too?

[warmfeet]

10. Hard to believe. Just so hard to believe. The shite runneth over. NT

[GiqueCee]

12. "...under any rule of reason..."

... Ah, Mr. Torrez, I suspect that your first mistake was to think that anyone working in the Trump regime would ever bother to do anything "under any rule of reason". This is the most corrupt administration in American history, hands down and going away.
Trump is a psychotic monster utterly devoid of any redeeming qualities whatsoever. There's not so much as a nanoparticle of human decency in his entire blubbery body.
Here's to getting rid of these psychopaths!

[travelingthrulife]

13. Of course they are. Trump's DOJ is just another one of his criminal enterprises.