Trump-Epstein Deepfakes Keep Coming
By Jack Olson
There’s no end to the fakes: Since NewsGuard last week declared Trump-Epstein deepfakes our “False Claim of the Week,” we have identified two more videos purporting to show President Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell with underaged girls.
One of the videos supposedly shows Trump and Maxwell staring at a crying young girl, while the other depicts Trump playing with a young girl’s nose as Maxwell watches. Both were created by AI, NewsGuard determined using multiple AI detection tools, including IdentifAI.
The AI fakes join a growing list of fabricated media showing Trump with underaged girls and either Epstein or Maxwell that have spread widely since the July 7 release of a joint FBI-Justice Department memo stating that there was no evidence of a so-called “client list” implicating elite co-conspirators. NewsGuard has now identified seven images and three videos purporting to show Trump in compromising situations.
While many of the high-engagement examples of the videos were quickly removed from social media platforms, low-engagement posts continue to circulate. NewsGuard has determined that the images and videos have so far cumulatively gained more than 7.2 million views across social media.
While Trump was photographed as late as the early 2000s at multiple social events with Epstein and flew on Epstein’s private jet multiple times, according to publicly available flight logs, Trump has never been charged or reported to be under investigation in connection with the Epstein case.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the Justice Department-FBI memo on the Epstein case was released on July 6, 2025. In fact, it was released on July 7. NewsGuard apologizes for the error.
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