{"id":66455,"date":"2026-02-16T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/epstein-ranch-in-new-mexico-bought-by-family-of-trump-republican-candidate\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:03:02","slug":"epstein-ranch-in-new-mexico-bought-by-family-of-trump-republican-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/epstein-ranch-in-new-mexico-bought-by-family-of-trump-republican-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein ranch in New Mexico bought by family of \u2018Trump Republican\u2019 candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Property where abuse took place purchased for $13.4m in 2023 by Texas businessman Donald Huffines\u2019 family<\/p>\n<p>The family of a self-identified \u201cTrump Republican\u201d running for office in Texas bought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/08\/epstein-files-new-mexico-ranch\">Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s New Mexico ranch<\/a> where the sex trafficker abused teenage girls and young women, according to new documents.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Donald Huffines, a Texas businessman and former GOP state senator now running for comptroller, confirmed the purchase to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/news\/local_news\/texas-businessman-running-for-office-owns-epsteins-zorro-ranch-in-santa-fe-county\/article_14a05944-1e00-47c8-a4c3-071895abfb57.html\">Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>, a local media outlet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/16\/epstein-ranch-new-mexico-purchase-republican-candidate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Property where abuse took place purchased for $13.4m in 2023 by Texas businessman Donald Huffines\u2019 family The family of a self-identified \u201cTrump Republican\u201d running for office in Texas bought Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s New Mexico ranch where the sex trafficker abused teenage girls and young women, according to new documents. A spokesperson for Donald Huffines, a Texas &#8230; <a title=\"Epstein ranch in New Mexico bought by family of \u2018Trump Republican\u2019 candidate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/epstein-ranch-in-new-mexico-bought-by-family-of-trump-republican-candidate\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Epstein ranch in New Mexico bought by family of \u2018Trump Republican\u2019 candidate\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}