A liberal group that prides itself on being an anti-Turning Point USA was hit with a summons while hosting an “Epstein Easter Egg Hunt” that had progressive participants scouring Manhattan for a chance to win $200.
The youth-led group called Disrupt rallied roughly 45 people to show up to Washington Square Park Saturday morning for the non-traditional egg hunt meant to “uncover who in NYC needs to be held accountable for their part in the [Epstein] files,” according to the event’s description.
“Release the names, release the names, release the names,” the spirited crowd chanted before dispersing throughout the city – searching for plastic eggs with QR codes inside, linking to Epstein files.
Players were then quizzed about the documents, with each correct answer worth a point. Special golden eggs held redacted files.
“Just like Willy Wonka had a golden ticket, we have golden eggs spread all across Manhattan,” Disrupt’s president, Carlos Calzadilla-Palacio, 28, told The Post while balancing on the rim of the Washington Square Park fountain.
About 800 eggs were nestled in the nooks and crannies of 20 spots mentioned in the files – including the pedophile’s former Upper East Side apartment and Trump Tower on the Upper West Side.
And while the hunters searched Manhattan, Calzadilla-Palacio ran into trouble at the park when he was issued a summons and fined $50 for Disrupt’s “political activities,” the group claimed in a statement.
Disrupt, which Calzadilla-Palacio described as a counter-movement to Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA, slammed the summons as “a direct violation of the First Amendment.”
According to the ticket, Calzadilla-Palacio was penalized for not having a permit to set up his “Epstein table.”
The NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, which wrote the ticket, did not immediately return a request for comment.
First place winner Everett J. Walk said the activity gave him a new – unsettling – perspective on Jeffrey Epstein’s sickening crimes.
“Being around there for the first time with this knowledge of what’s behind it… it was informative but also, I felt like I needed to take a shower,” he reflected.
