{"id":427015,"date":"2026-09-05T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T09:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T09:14:18","slug":"fake-dallas-gop-convention-website-sends-people-to-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427015\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Dallas GOP convention website sends people to Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

A website called gopdallas2026.com has been taken offline Friday after redirecting people to a Justice Department website on the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

As recently as Monday, the website featured an image of the American Airlines Center in Dallas with President Donald Trump’s likeness on a banner.<\/p>\n

The site is one of the first to appear in Google’s results when searching “gop midterm convention.”<\/p>\n

DALLAS – A website that claimed to be associated with the Republican Party’s midterm convention happening in Dallas next week was taken offline Friday.<\/p>\n

The move came after visitors to gopdallas2026.com were redirected to the Justice Department’s online library of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

The website carrying the Republican Party’s initials is one of the first to appear in Google’s results when searching for the phrase “gop midterm convention.”<\/p>\n

\"<div>A<\/p>\n

A screengrab of gopdallas2026.com dated Aug. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n

(Wayback Machine \/ FOX Local)<\/p>\n

As recently as Monday, the site featured an image of the American Airlines Center in Dallas, where the convention is being held. The AAC was surrounded by fireworks and had a banner with the likeness of President Donald Trump on the front.<\/p>\n

On Friday, people took to social media with images and videos showing that visitors to the site were being redirected.<\/p>\n

By Friday afternoon, the site was offline and had a message that read: “This site is currently private.”<\/p>\n

\"<div>A<\/p>\n

A screengrab dated Sept. 4, 2026, showing gopdallas2026.com had been taken offline.<\/p>\n

It’s a fake. So what’s the real site?<\/p>\n

Dig deeper<\/p>\n

The site in question seems to have gone live in July, according to captures by the Wayback Machine. Turns out, it was a fake site.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party’s official site for the Dallas convention is gopconvention.com<\/a>, and has been around for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n

Neither the Republican National Committee nor the Republican Party of Texas have responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

Information in this story came from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A website called gopdallas2026.com has been taken offline Friday after redirecting people to a Justice Department…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,145,142738,10701,7389,50009,148534,146746,148536,148535],"class_list":["post-427015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-epstein","tag-friday","tag-google","tag-monday","tag-the-republican-partys","tag-the-source-information","tag-wayback-machine","tag-wayback-machine-fox-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}