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Edited video claiming discovery of video of Trump with children on Epstein’s island

Jeffrey Epstein was a wealthy American investor and convicted sex offender. Utilizing high-level connections built with influential people, he was involved in the sexual abuse and trafficking of teenage girls. In 2019, he was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in the United States. However, before the judicial process could begin, his hanging body was recovered from a New York jail. Epstein’s death sparked widespread global debate and various conspiracy theories about whether it was suicide or homicide. Later, the US Department of Justice officially stated that Epstein committed suicide.

In 2026, under the ‘Epstein Files Transparency Act’, the US Department of Justice released nearly 3.5 million pages of documents, over two thousand videos, and nearly one hundred eighty thousand photos. This massive collection of data and information related to Epstein is generally referred to as the ‘Epstein Files’. In the review of the published documents, along with the names of various influential people around the world, the name of US President Donald Trump also came up in connection with Epstein. This is generating discussion and criticism. There are even allegations against influential people of going to Epstein’s island and eating the flesh of human children.

In such a situation, a video has been circulated recently on social media claiming that a video of children screaming in terror upon seeing Donald Trump on that discussed island has been found in the Epstein Files.

See such videos circulated on Facebook here (Archive), here (Archive), and here (Archive).

See the same video circulated on YouTube, here (Archive).

See the video circulated on Instagram here (Archive).

Fact Check

The Rumor Scanner team’s investigation reveals that the claim of finding video footage of children screaming in terror upon seeing Donald Trump on that discussed island in the Epstein Files is not correct. Furthermore, the video circulated with the discussed claim is not part of the Epstein Files. It does not even have any connection to the Epstein issue. In reality, the discussed video was created by combining a video of US President Donald Trump visiting a school with a part of another viral video of an Easter event at a US daycare.

Investigating the discussed video, no information regarding the discovery of such a video in the Epstein Files was found in international media or any reliable source.

Subsequently, investigating the footage of Donald Trump seen at the beginning of the circulated video, a video titled Trump Visits First-Grade Classroom broadcast on October 6, 2016, was found on the YouTube channel of the US media outlet ABC News.

Reviewing the video, it is seen that the footage of the US President seen at the beginning of the video circulated with the discussed claim matches the beginning part of the said video. In both videos, Trump is seen entering the same classroom wearing the same clothes and in the same manner. However, the footage of children screaming is not seen in the later part of the video. Instead, a child is seen going up to him and giving him a gift.

From the detailed description of the obtained video, it is known that on October 5 of that year, during the 2016 US presidential election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump went to visit the International Christian Academy, a private school in Nevada. In the video, he is seen visiting the first-grade classroom of that institution. That is, this video of Trump visiting a schoolroom has no relation to Epstein’s island.

Later, investigating the footage of children screaming in the second part of the discussed video, that video of children screaming was seen being broadcast on April 7, 2018, on the YouTube channel of another US media outlet, Inside Edition.

Reviewing the circulated video, it is seen that when someone dressed as a rabbit entered the classroom of those discussed children, they screamed in terror upon seeing it. Additionally, from the detailed description, it is known that the video was recorded about eight days earlier, i.e., on March 30 of that year, at a daycare center named ‘Around the World Learning Center’ in Florida, USA. On that day, when someone suddenly entered that classroom dressed as the Easter Bunny, the children screamed upon seeing it. The video of that incident was recorded by a worker at the daycare. Which later spread on the internet. However, the mother of the child seen in the video became angry because the video of her child was published on the internet without permission. In the obtained video, she is heard complaining against the school regarding this matter.

At that time, the child’s mother gave interviews to multiple media outlets. See some such videos of her giving interviews here and here. That is, from this it is also confirmed that the said video is not of Epstein’s island or of children screaming upon seeing Trump. Because that video of Trump visiting the classroom is from 2016, whereas this discussed video of children screaming is from 2018, and the videos are from two different US states.

Therefore, the information circulated claiming that a video of children screaming upon seeing Trump on Epstein’s island was found in the Epstein Files is completely false, and the video circulated with the said claim is edited.

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