An image authentically shows U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi at age 14 with President Donald Trump at a party connected to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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In February 2026, a supposed image of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi at age 14 with an adult President Donald Trump spread on social media platforms such as Threads, Facebookand X.
The most popular version of these claims included a text overlay that suggested the photo was taken at a party somehow related to convicted sex offender and late financier Jeffrey Epstein:
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!
Snopes readers wrote in to ask whether the girl in the picture was really Bondi and if the context of the image included Epstein.
We first fact-checked the authenticity of this image in 2025 amid social media claims that it showed an anonymous 13-year-old girl with Trump on Epstein’s island. While the claim has changed, the rating has not: The image is fake. As we previously reported, the image was generated by artificial intelligence.
The Department of Justice did not immediately return a request for comment about the claim and an inquiry as to whether Bondi had met Epstein. A reverse image search could not determine the original creator of the image.
How we know the image was AI-generated
The image as circulated in 2025 had clear indicators of AI generation, including the unnatural hair and skin tone on the teenage girl, particularly the smoothness of the skin on her arm. The 2025 version of the image also included red flags in the background of the picture. As we reported in 2025:
The man behind the girl’s shoulder appears to be holding the glass of alcohol with six fingers (including one invisible thumb), five of which are strangely elongated. The individual behind Trump’s shoulder also has no visible ear lobe, despite the rest of the ear being in place.
Someone likely added grain or blur and cropped the version of the image circulating in 2026 to hide these clues of AI generation. This is actually a good example of why AI detection tools are not foolproof: The detection engine Hive Moderation determined that the 2025 version was likely AI-generated but claimed the 2026 version was not likely AI-generated, even though they’re the same picture.
Left: 2026 version of claim. Right: 2025 version of claim. (Facebook user Kween Galloway McCloud/X user @AngeliqueSuzan1)
There’s still at least one major indicator of AI in the 2026 version: Trump has blue eyes, as seen in these real images. The AI-generated image shows Trump with brown eyes.
That’s not Pam Bondi
Comparing the fake girl in the picture to a credible image of Bondi as a high school senior published by the Tampa Bay Times also showed that the fake girl’s features did not match with young Bondi’s features. For example, the width of the fake girl’s nose and the shape of her jawline differed from Bondi’s actual nose and jawline.
Article from Dec 1, 2024 Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Florida)
The timeline also doesn’t add up. As we have previously reported, Trump told New York magazine in 2002 that he’d known Epstein for 15 years, placing the start of their relationship around 1987. Bondi was born Nov. 17, 1965. That means she turned 14 on Nov. 17, 1979, years before Trump said he became friends with Epstein.
As such, it doesn’t make sense to claim that she attended a party with Trump and Epstein — or that she was in the two men’s circuit — at age 14.
Finally, if this image actually showed Bondi as a minor with an adult Trump, it would have certainly made news, and no reputable news outlets have published any stories reporting on this image as legitimate, per a Google search.
For further reading, Snopes has a collection of stories debunking pictures of Trump with young girls.
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Hive Moderation. https://hivemoderation.com/ai-generated-content-detection. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
Ibrahim, Nur. “Don’t Fall for Photo of Trump Dancing with Teen Girl on Epstein’s Island.” Snopes, 9 July 2025, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/trump-teen-epstein-island-photo/.
Liles, Jordan. “Did Trump Once Say Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy’ Who ‘Likes Beautiful Women as Much as I Do’?” Snopes, 21 Dec. 2023, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/trump-epstein-terrific-guy/.
“Pam Bondi.” Brittanica, 12 Feb. 2026, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pam-Bondi.
“Pam Bondi, 1983.” Tampa Bay Times [St. Petersburg, Florida], 1 Dec. 2024, p. A2. newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/article/tampa-bay-times-pam-bondi-1983/191212561/.
Sullivan, Dan. “Pam Bondi Charmed Her Way from Tampa’s Courthouse to the White House.” Tampa Bay Times, https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/11/26/pam-bondi-florida-attorney-general-president-donald-trump/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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