Breaking: FBI Confirms Epstein Letter to Larry Nassar Implicating Trump Is a Complete Fake

When it comes to attacking President Donald J. Trump, some narratives appear to be simply too irresistible for the press to pause and verify.

That reality was on full display Tuesday after the Justice Department released additional documents from the files of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Among them was a sensational letter purportedly written by Epstein to another infamous sex criminal — former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar — that directly implicated Trump.

There was just one major problem: the letter was fake.

By mid-afternoon, the Justice Department announced that the FBI had formally concluded the document was not authentic. But by that point, several major media outlets had already rushed to publicize the allegation, amplifying its most inflammatory claims before the facts were known.

The supposed 2019 letter — allegedly written while Trump was serving as president — included a particularly lurid passage asserting that “our president” shared a “love of nubile young girls.” That quote quickly became the centerpiece of media coverage.

The Wall Street Journal published a post on X shortly before 1 p.m. treating the letter as legitimate. Forbes followed suit, circulating the quote before later conceding that “the Justice Department has disputed claims” involving Trump.

TMZ, the celebrity gossip outlet that periodically dips into political coverage when it suits its audience, also treated the letter’s existence as unquestioned fact, offering no mention of Justice Department skepticism at the time.

Yet hours later, the DOJ released a definitive statement making its position unmistakably clear: “The FBI has confirmed this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar is FAKE.”

The department cited multiple red flags. The letter was postmarked three days after Epstein’s highly publicized death in a Manhattan federal jail cell. It originated in Virginia — nowhere near Epstein’s last known residence at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. And the handwriting failed to match Epstein’s known writing samples.

Any one of those issues should have been enough to halt publication. Instead, the story was already racing across social media feeds.

To be sure, the posts from the outlets mentioned above linked to longer articles that included caveats or expressed some uncertainty about the letter’s authenticity. But in the social media age, where most readers consume headlines and quotes without clicking through, the damage had already been done.

This is the inevitable result of a media ecosystem that has abandoned the once-sacred principle of “get it first, but first get it right.” Today’s online outlets prioritize speed and virality. Accuracy, at best, is negotiable. When truth is no longer a prerequisite for publication, these embarrassments are inevitable.

Still, it is impossible to ignore the role Trump’s name played in the recklessness. Bill Clinton’s extensive and well-documented association with Epstein is public record, as is his history of sexual misconduct and deception. Yet it is almost unthinkable that Forbes or the Wall Street Journal would publish an unverified claim suggesting Clinton shared a “love of nubile young girls” with Epstein and Nassar.

Had the allegation involved Barack Hussein Obama, it is doubtful Americans would have heard about it at all from the establishment press.

The obvious next question should be the origin of the forged letter. Who had the access, motivation, and animus toward Trump to fabricate “evidence” and seed it into the public record as a political landmine aimed at the 45th — and now 47th — president of the United States? Perhaps the same individual responsible for the dubious Trump-Epstein “birthday” story that previously made the rounds.

Don’t expect legacy media to pursue that angle with any urgency. When Trump is the target — a man loathed by the political press for more than a decade — standards collapse, skepticism evaporates, and narratives take precedence over facts.

If nothing else, years of experience have proven one thing beyond dispute: when it comes to Donald Trump, there are stories that are simply too good for the media to bother checking.