Online posts share fake Trump claims after latest Epstein files releasepublished at 13:55 GMT
13:55 GMT
Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist
A fake email claiming to be from the Epstein files which says Donald Trump “doesn’t like black girls” has gathered millions of views online.
BBC Verify has searched for the email, but it does not appear in any of the documents released by the US Department of Justice last Friday.
The fabricated email exchange appears to show sex offender Jeffrey Epstein telling another person not to bring two guests to New York City.
It reads: “trump will be there. doesn’t like black girls” and says he “wont go w in 10 feet”. The fake email also uses a word which could be considered derogatory.
The domain listed in the email – jeevacation.com – also does not appear in any other documents and public databases show this domain was created in 2019, more than six years after these email were purportedly sent.
Reverse image searches indicate that the earliest version of the picture available online was posted by an X account which has previously been reported to have created fabricated documents about the Trump administration.
Image source, X
Trump’s name does appear almost 5,000 times in the newly released files.
Among them is a list compiled by the FBI last year of historical allegations made against Trump, Epstein and other high-profile figures by callers to its national Threat Operation Center tip line.
Many of these appear to be based on unverified claims and were made without supporting evidence. The document now appears to have been removed from the US Department of Justice website and we’ve contacted them to ask why.
Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and has not been accused of any crimes by Epstein’s victims. Being named or pictured in the files is not an indication of wrongdoing.