Claim A picture shows Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell massaging the foot of Florida Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, the man who signed off on the warrant that allowed the FBI to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022. Bruce E. Reinhart, a U.S. magistrate judge for the Southern District of Florida, was not photographed on an airplane receiving a foot massage from Jeffrey Epstein associate and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. The fake picture, which appeared to have been altered with Adobe Photoshop, originally showed Epstein receiving the massage, not Reinhart. Social media users first shared the fake photograph in the days following the federal search of Trump’s property. Reuters reported that its fact-check team conducted a simple reverse image search, which showed that the original photograph featured Epstein, a convicted sex offender, not Reinhart.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2022 23:44 UTC