Does an image show Attorney General Pam Bondi at age 14 with President Donald Trump at a Jeffrey Epstein party? No, that's not true: An AI-generated content detector concluded that it was 99.9% certain to have been made by an artificial intelligence tool. Lead Stories found obvious signs that it was a deepfake image in 2023 when we fact checked a claim that it showed an anonymous 13-year-old with Trump.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) shared by the Turning Point USA - Support Community Facebook page on February 7, 2026. The text on the image read:
Pam Bondi at 14, She is now Trump's head of the DoJ. She is an Epstein party baby! Just sickening.. how deep does this go!
This is what the image looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Facebook)
The most obvious clue that this photo is not a 14-year-old Pam Bondi with Donald Trump at an Epstein party is that the future attorney general was born in 1965. Trump's friendship with Epstein did not start until the mid-1980s (archived here), when Bondi was an adult attending (archived here) the University of Florida.
But we've seen this image before. Lead Stories found it posted on X on June 14, 2023, with the claim that it was Trump "dancing with a 13 year old girl" on Epstein's private island. The latest version, however, cropped out some of the obvious signs it was not real. This is the earlier version:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of X.com)
The Hive Moderation AI-generated content detection left no doubt when it tested the image, concluding:
The input is: likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content 99.9%
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of HiveModeration.com)
Artificial Intelligence tools for creating false images have evolved tremendously in the 32 months since this image was created. Unlike AI images made in 2026, deepfakes from 2023 had defects that fact checkers could usually spot with the naked eye. This is what we included in our June 2023 debunk headlined "Fact Check: Picture Does NOT Show 'Trump Dancing With A 13 Year Old Girl' -- It's NOT Real Photo."
The woman behind Trump had an enormous ear as a head, and the man behind the girl had an extra finger on the hand holding a beer. Newer AI tools don't usually make those same mistakes.
