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19 rumors about Trump's relationship with Epstein, fact-checked

Yesterday, multiple news outlets reported on documents released by House Democrats that supposedly showed messages by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein about President Donald Trump.

The White House accused Democrats of selectively leaking the records "to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump." Reporters Anna Rascouët-Paz and Joey Esposito rounded up a number of rumors we've fact-checked about the relationship between Trump and Epstein.

Trump moved the Resolute Desk from Oval Office to Mar-a-Lago?

Nearly every American president has used the Resolute Desk since Queen Victoria gifted it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.

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Is the New York Stock Exchange moving to Texas because of Mamdani's win?

The rumor spread after self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the 2025 New York mayoral election.

Report links ex-Capitol Police officer Shauni Rae Kerkhoff to 'Jan. 6 pipe bomber': What we know

As of this writing, the Blaze News report remained unconfirmed. Federal authorities had not identified Kerkhoff as a suspect.

No, doctors weren't warning about new 'COVID-25' strain with 'very different signs'

Different strains of the COVID-19 virus sometimes come with symptoms that are specific to them.

Staff Pick

Chart allegedly proved Democrat-led cities have more violent crime. We crunched the numbers

Tim Pool's chart is just one example of the countless claims attempting to associate violent crime with a political party.