{"id":407588,"date":"2026-02-04T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407588\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:31:10","slug":"verifying-gaza-footage-after-20-reported-killed-in-israeli-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407588\/","title":{"rendered":"Verifying Gaza footage after 20 reported killed in Israeli strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online posts share fake Trump claims after latest Epstein files releasepublished at 13:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/24d2d5d4-d458-4196-aaee-113790d4fafc.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Thomas Copeland<br \/>BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fake email claiming to be from the Epstein files which says Donald Trump &#8220;doesn&#8217;t like black girls&#8221; has gathered millions of views online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fabricated email exchange appears to show sex offender Jeffrey Epstein telling another person not to bring two guests to New York City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It reads: &#8220;trump will be there. doesn&#8217;t like black girls\u201d and says he \u201cwont go w in 10 feet\u201d.  The fake email also uses a word which could be considered derogatory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The domain listed in the email &#8211; jeevacation.com &#8211; 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screenshot of the fake email thread with a 'False' red label\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/52471d49-018d-4b39-aa39-5ea07db9fea5.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"966\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, X<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump&#8217;s name does appear almost 5,000 times in the newly released files. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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\u2019ve contacted them to ask why. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and has not been accused of any crimes by Epstein&#8217;s victims. Being named or pictured in the files is not an indication of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Online posts share fake Trump claims after latest Epstein files releasepublished at 13:55 GMT 13:55 GMT Thomas CopelandBBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-407588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}