President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on July 21, and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
In the wake of the announcement, a photo appearing to show Harris posing with late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein went viral. Epstein was in the headlines recently after a federal judge ordered the release of court records that named Epstein’s associates.
Several X posts with the photo say “make this photo famous,” implying there is a link between Harris and Epstein. But people in the comments of the X posts say the photo is fake.
THE QUESTION
Is the photo of Kamala Harris posing with Jeffrey Epstein real?
THE SOURCES
- Original 2015 Getty Images photo of Harris and husband Doug Emhoff
- Epstein’s mugshot from his 2006 arrest in Florida
- RevEye, a reverse image search tool
THE ANSWER
No, the photo of Kamala Harris posing with Jeffrey Epstein isn’t real.
WHAT WE FOUND
The image appearing to show Kamala Harris posing with Jeffrey Epstein is fake.
Using RevEye, a reverse image search tool, VERIFY traced the image of Harris to a Getty Images photo taken on Sept. 17, 2015. In the original, Harris was not posing with Epstein – she was posing with her husband Doug Emhoff at a black tie dinner in Los Angeles.
Epstein’s head was superimposed onto Emhoff’s body and was taken from his 2006 mugshot released by the Palm Beach, Florida, Sheriff’s Office.
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