The brothers of the late Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre joined demonstrators outside Epstein’s former ranch in New Mexico on Sunday to demand more transparency.
The protest, pegged to International Women’s Day, was attended by what the Santa Fe New Mexican estimated to be hundreds of demonstrators, including activists and lawmakers, outside the estate formerly known as Zorro Ranch.
Sky Roberts said it was the first time he had visited the ranch, and demonstrators’ presence was important as a show of “force” that they’re not “going away,” as some people, including the president, try to direct attention away from the Epstein scandal. During his remarks, he rebuked the government for what he called a cover-up and demanded the Justice Department release documents that show who visited the ranch, among other things.
“All those names are in the files, and right now the government is covering those up,” he said, according to Reuters.
Epstein reportedly talked about using the ranch (now owned by Don Huffines, the GOP candidate for Texas state comptroller) for a eugenics-inspired plan to impregnate several women to “seed” the human race with his DNA (there’s no evidence he carried out such a plan). Giuffre’s posthumously released memoir includes allegations about meeting politicians and CEOs at Zorro Ranch, which was also recently linked to an unverified claim in the Epstein files alleging the deceased sex criminal had the bodies of two women buried near the property. After that allegation surfaced among the recently released Epstein files, New Mexico’s state legislature formed a truth commission to investigate Epstein’s activities at the ranch; the state DOJ has opened a probe of its own.
Local news channel KQBE in New Mexico had this report from the demonstration: Several other Epstein-related demonstrations across the country used the occasion of International Women’s Day on Sunday to denounce people who have abused and otherwise subjugated women. Several of these took place at Trump properties, including a protest at Trump Tower in Chicago, which drew hundreds. As the president has launched wars abroad and demanded unnecessary and problematic requirements to vote at home, many Americans have continued to defy his insistence that the public move on from the Epstein files, in which he’s mentioned thousands of times. Last week, the DOJ released new files related to an unverified allegation, which the White House has called “completely baseless.” The allegation accused Trump of having sexually assaulted and hit a minor in the 1980s. My MS NOW colleague Lisa Rubin discussed that allegation on “The Weeknight” last week. Check out her analysis here.
Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog. 
