Claim by MeidasTouch
“Jeffrey Epstein kept blackmail videos that showed Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Richard Branson having sex with women he supplied them with, according to the latest bombshell claims in newly-unsealed court documents.” (Update) MeidasTouch promptly deleted the tweet but kept a repost of the same Tweet.
Reasoning
MeidasTouch supports its claim by linking to an article in the Daily Mail titled Donald Trump named in latest Epstein documents: Sarah Ransome said he had sex with ‘many girls’ in email where she also claimed pedophile had tapes of the ex-president, Richard Branson, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton. The claim originates from emails sent by Epstein victim Sarah Ransome to journalist Maureen Callahan in 2016. Ransome initially claimed to have seen footage of these encounters. However, what MeidasTouch does not state is that she later retracted these claims, citing family safety concerns, and admitted to “inventing” the tapes in a 2019 New Yorker report. The Daily Mail article and a review of the unsealed court documents reveal no evidence to support the existence of such blackmail tapes. Furthermore, no such footage has been made public, and the FBI has not released any evidence confirming the claim despite pressure to disclose items from a 2019 raid on Epstein’s mansion.
Fact or Fiction?
Unproven. While it is true the videos are mentioned in the court documents, there is no physical evidence that Epstein kept blackmail videos of Clinton, Trump, and Branson. The claim is further weakened by the retraction and admission of fabrication by the primary source of the claim, Sarah Ransome. While these videos may exist, the definitive claim is misleading as there is no evidence to support their existence.
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