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Claim: “Joe Biden’s margin of the less than 21,000 votes in Wisconsin was the tightest of any state in 2020.” (Rebecca Kleefisch, 2022-06-08)
Evidence (2024-07-02): The best way to describe Wisconsin is that it's a purple state. National political commentators will also refer to Wisconsin as a swing state or battleground state, because it's one of the truly competitive states that decide who wins the presidential election. [...] In 2020, Wisconsin voted for President Joe Biden, who won the presidency. Biden took 49.6% of the vote, compared to Trump's 48.9%. That's a difference of less than 21,000 votes. [...] In 2020, Biden got nearly 70% of the vote in Milwaukee County. In 2016, Clinton got about 66%.
Claim: “Joe Biden’s margin of the less than 21,000 votes in Wisconsin was the tightest of any state in 2020.” (Rebecca Kleefisch, 2022-06-08)
Evidence (2024-09-27): This story was updated on Sept. 27 at 4:10 p.m. to correct Joe Biden’s margin of victory in Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential election. [...] The number of Latino voters in Wisconsin is a fraction of the electorate that lives in states closer to the U.S.-Mexico border but no less impactful. There are roughly 180,000 eligible Latino voters who call the Badger State home. Biden carried Wisconsin in 2020 by a margin of just 21,000 votes, less than 1 percentage point. [...] Neumann-Ortiz attributes that support to the fact that immigrants make up a large part of the state’s dairy and agricultural industries. And in rural areas where dairy operations and farms are located, public transportation is sparse. United Migrant Opportunity Services, a Milwaukee-based farmworker advocacy organization, estimates that as much as 40 percent of the state’s dairy workers are immigrants. Other estimates indicate they contribute 80 percent of the labor on dairy farms.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2020-12-17): There’s no evidence Chief Justice John Roberts is in the viral picture. The photo was taken in the Dominican Republic, not on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island. There’s no credible evidence that a "John Roberts" listed in Epstein’s flight logs is the chief justice, or that the chief justice had a personal relationship with Epstein.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2020-12-18): "I have long had questions about 'the John Roberts' on Jeffrey Epstein private jet flight logs. I suspected it was our Chief Justice. MSM [mainstream media] has shown no interest in investigating the issue to find TRUTH," Wood tweeted to his 819,000 followers. [...] In response, several Twitter users posted a photograph which they claim to be showing Roberts and former president Bill Clinton and others swimming in the sea just off Epstein's private Caribbean island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Little St James. [...] A photograph which claims to back up the suggestion has been shown to be a hoax as it does not show Roberts, nor was it taken on Little St. James. The only passable link to suggest Justice Roberts visited Epstein's private island is the name "John Roberts" on flight logs where there is zero evidence it is the Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-01-09): "Q: How did Bill Clinton get to your island when he came to visit you? A: Fifth. Q: Sir, isn't it true, Bill Clinton got to the island by having Maxwell fly him there on a helicopter? A: Fifth. Q: Do you own a helicopter, sir? A: Fifth." (Attachment 1335-6, Epstein’s deposition) [...] "Q: When Bill Clinton visited your private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, please describe all the steps that you took to conceal his presence there. A: Fifth. Q: When Bill Clinton came to your private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, please describe anyone who he was accompanied by. A: Fifth. Q: When Bill Clinton came to your island, he was accompanied by two young women who were approximately 18 years old, true? A: Fifth." (Attachment 1335-6, Epstein’s deposition) [...] "Q: Is Bill Clinton a witness to the sexual abuse of minors? A: Yes, he would be a witness because he knew what my purpose there was for Jeffrey and he visited Jeffrey's island. There's pictures of nude girls all around the house at all of his houses and it's something that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't shy about admitting to people." (Attachment 1335-3, Giuffre’s deposition)
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-01-04): She had previously said Mr Clinton visited Mr Epstein's private island but in the court documents both Maxwell and Epstein dispute this. There is also no record in pilot logs of Mr Clinton going there. [...] But those meetings took place before the financier came under investigation, he said, and he had no knowledge of his crimes. The document also includes testimony about Donald Trump from Ms Sjoberg about a diversion Epstein's plane made to New Jersey to visit the businessman in 2001 at one of his casinos.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2020-12-22): A photo showing U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts snuggling up next to Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and other images claiming he visited Epstein's private island is being circulated on social media. Last week, after attorney Lin Wood posted a series of tweets pushing the conspiracy theory that the chief justice was listed on Epstein's flight logs, social media users quickly followed suit and started circulating alleged proof of Roberts on Epstein's private Caribbean island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Little St James. [...] 'Evidence' of Roberts on Epstein's Private Island
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-02-02): Jamie Melanson - Donald Morrell - David Mullen - David Norr - Joe Pagano - May Paluga - Stanley Pottinger - Detective Joe Recarey, former Palm Beach police officer who investigated reports of sexual abuse against children by Epstein - Chief Michael Reiter, responsible for investigation of sexual abuse against children by Epstein - Rinaldo and Debra Rizzo, husband and wife who worked for Epstein’s alleged friend Glenn Dubin - Sky Roberts - Kimblerley Roberts - Lynn Roberts - Haley Robson, named as a "teen recruiter" for Epstein in police documents - Dave Rodgers, private jet pilot for Epstein - Alfredo Rodriquez, butler at Epstein’s Florida home - Scott Rothinson - Forest Sawyer - Dough Schoetlle,investigator - Johanna Sjoberg, claims she was sexually abused while underage by Epstein.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-01-03): Former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are known to have had connections with Epstein, a multimillionaire investor and consultant, though neither has been accused of wrongdoing related to those ties. A spokesman for Clinton confirmed in 2019 that the former president had flown on Epstein’s private plane but said Clinton knew nothing of the financier’s "terrible crimes." Trump has told reporters that he banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago estate but has not publicly explained why their friendship ended.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2021-11-24): Ghislaine Maxwell, who is charged with assisting accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is scheduled to go on trial on Nov. 29. Social media posts are circulating a photo that falsely claims to show Chief Justice John Roberts in an affectionate pose with Maxwell. The photo actually shows Maxwell with a French modeling agent facing sexual assault charges. [...] According to Newsweek, the claim that Roberts was linked to Maxwell or Epstein began after then-President Donald Trump and QAnon-supporting attorney Lin Wood "posted a series of tweets attacking Chief Justice John Roberts in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to throw out yet another bid to overturn the election results." [...] Palmer, Ewan. "Fact Check: Does Photo Show Chief Justice John Roberts on Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Island?" Newsweek. 18 Dec 2020.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2021-04-30): CLAIM: Photo shows Ghislaine Maxwell, the ex-girlfriend and longtime confidant of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, posing on a chair with United States Chief Justice John Roberts. [...] "John Roberts and Ghislaine? Hmm," read one Facebook post viewed nearly 80,000 times over the weekend. "Judge John Roberts with Gislain Maxwell at Epsteins isle," read another.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2021-04-14): Does a photo show Chief Justice John Roberts swimming with Bill Clinton on Jeffrey Epstein's private island? No, that's not true: The image used to support the claim that Roberts visited Epstein's private island was taken at a resort in the Dominican Republic in 2017. The men seen socializing with former President Bill Clinton do not include Roberts. The claim appeared in an article published by genzconservative.com on December 11, 2020 titled "Is It True that Chief Justice John Roberts Visited Epstein's Island?" (archived here) which opened: [...] Now, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Yes, I'm concerned about the brazen voter fraud in the election, especially the votes Biden received from non-citizens. Yes, I think the Hunter Biden emails are real and I think Biden might have worn a wire during the first debate. And no, I don't think Epstein killed himself. But, other than the wire, those aren't really conspiracy theories. They are things that happened. I think the same is true of me saying that John Roberts visited Epstein's island. I might be wrong, but the evidence is damning.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2020-12-18): The photo in question had gone viral previously, with posts from 2018 and 2019 claiming it showed former President Bill Clinton on Epstein’s island. The images were, in fact, taken in January 2017 at the Casa de Campo Resort in the Dominican Republic. Snopes noted at the time that one of Clinton’s friends named George Nader (not, as Snopes proved, a sex offender of the same name) shared one of the images to his Instagram. Several Spanish-language news outlets reported on the trip and shared the pictures in question. The individual identified as Roberts was not identified in reporting on Clinton’s vacation, but photos of Roberts at Trump’s inauguration, which also occurred in January 2017, show that his head of hair, with all respect to the chief justice, is grayer and not quite as full.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2020-12-21): Did John Roberts Vacation on Jeffrey Epstein’s Island? [...] Viral social media posts claim to show Chief Justice John Roberts on Jeffery Epstein’s island. [...] News and Information about Facts and Fact Checking https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/did-john-roberts-vacation-on-jeffrey
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2021-12-07): Upon their first visit to Epstein's Florida home, both girls participated in a massage that ended with Ms Roberts having sex with their host while Carolyn allegedly watched. [...] The witness said both adults had known she was very young. She recounted an invitation to visit Epstein's private island when she was 14 years old; she said she refused because she had no passport and her mother would not let her go. Carolyn said she had a child by the time she hit 18 and went back to visit Epstein again.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-10-05): Epstein was a longtime acquaintance of Prince Andrew and Tom Barrack,[209] and attended parties with many prominent people, including Bill Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, Mark Zuckerberg,[210] Donald Trump,[211] Katie Couric, Woody Allen,[212] Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin,[213] Naomi Campbell, Stephen Hawking[214] and Harvey Weinstein.[215] Contacts listed in his printed phone directory included Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, John Kerry,[216] Richard Branson, Alec Baldwin, David Koch[217] and Michael Jackson.[218] The "black book" also included Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, British prime minister Tony Blair, and Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.[219][220][221] Both Clinton[222] and Trump[223] claimed that they never visited Epstein's island. [...] He had one meeting with Epstein in his Harlem office in 2002, and around the same time made one brief visit to Epstein's New York apartment with a staff member and his security detail. He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and he has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida."
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2010-03-22): "Nobody has explained why that wouldn’t be a proper solution, not nearly as drastic," Stevens went on. "Why is that not the wisest narrow solution of the problem before us?"
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-01-04): Those included Ghislaine Maxwell’s London apartment, an unspecified location in New York and "on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands (in an orgy with numerous other underaged girls)." [...] Al Gore’s wife, Tipper, was also seen on Epstein’s private island, according to Giuffre’s deposition in a since-dropped case against Dershowitz, which was part of the cache of documents revealed in her 2015 defamation case against Maxwell. [...] The so-called "Russian Rapunzel" was just 18 when she flew with Epstein to his private island, flight logs show. After she jumped from her Manhattan apartment balcony in 2008, her then-boyfriend said she had problems that she kept "bottled up."
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-01-04): The depositions allege that Epstein, who had a private plane and island in the Caribbean, among other properties, was associated with powerful people in politics and even royalty, referring to two princes. [...] In a deposition, Maxwell said Clinton had dined on Epstein’s plane, but she denied he ever visited Epstein’s Caribbean Island, Little St. James. She said allegations that Clinton had had a meal on Epstein’s island were "100% false."
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2019-08-10): But he said that even with Epstein's death, the investigation into conduct in the indictment against him, including a count of conspiracy, would continue. [...] "These allegations and inferences are completely false," Richardson's office said. "To be clear, in Governor Richardson's limited interactions with Mr. Epstein, he never saw him in the presence of young or underage girls. Governor Richardson has never been to Mr. Epstein's residence in the Virgin Islands. Governor Richardson has never met Ms. Giuffre." [...] "The victims deserved to see Epstein held accountable, and he owed it to everyone he hurt to accept responsibility for all of the pain he caused."
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-01-02): Records do not indicate criminal conduct by Clinton. Although Giuffre herself didn’t accuse him, either, she did claim to have met Clinton on Epstein’s private Caribbean island. Representatives for the former president denied that, however, and said he "cut off contact" with Epstein in 2005, according to ABC. Personal flight records show Clinton and others flying on Epstein’s plane to Paris, Bangkok and Brunei in 2002 and 2003 but there are no available records of him going to his island specifically. [...] To Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Kennedy said he was on Epstein’s plane in 1993 while on a trip to Florida with his then-wife Mary and his two children to visit his mother over Easter, then on another occasion to go fossil hunting. [...] The former Israeli prime minister visited Epstein "dozens" of times, accepting flights on a private jet while visiting his mansions in Florida and New York, the Wall Street Journal wrote.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2021-07-25): A satellite of Miami, the island prides itself on its many flamboyant charity balls, but no amount of good-cause fundraising can remove the whiff of corruption that hangs heavy in the subtropical air. If money talks in most places, in Palm Beach it speaks with a confident authority that’s seldom questioned. Never has that understanding been more egregiously demonstrated than in the case of the inscrutable financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. [...] "I let his lawyers know what I was doing. I sent certified letters to everybody. I knocked on Epstein’s door. Nobody responded to me except [Epstein’s lawyer, Alan] Dershowitz. I think it was because they underestimated what I was doing. They just thought I was some little reporter from the Miami Herald who’s writing about the same old thing." [...] But perhaps what concerns Brown as much as anything is the ease with which Epstein was received back into wealthy society after he had been to prison and was registered as a sex offender.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-02-02): Ghislaine Maxwell, who is charged with assisting accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is scheduled to go on trial on Nov. 29. Social media posts are circulating a photo that falsely claims to show Chief Justice John Roberts in an affectionate pose with Maxwell. The photo actually shows Maxwell with a French modeling agent facing sexual assault charges.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2020-12-17): Viral photo, flight logs don't prove Chief Justice John Roberts went to Jeffrey Epstein’s island [...] "Lin Wood confirms Chief Justice John Roberts was on Epstein’s pedo island, has documentation" said the headline on one pro-Trump blog post shared widely on Facebook. [...] Lead Stories, "Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Chief Justice John Roberts On Jeffrey Epstein's Island," Dec. 13, 2020
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-01-03): Claim: Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama are among more than 160 confirmed visitors to Epstein Island [...] Police have said there was no evidence of foul play in Perry's death. Nor is there evidence that he visited Epstein Island, the retreat used in connection with a long-running sex trafficking operation. Perry's name does not appear on the flight log of Jeffrey Epstein's private plane. Read more [...] Claim: Chris Wallace visited Jeffrey Epstein's island
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2019-07-22): (Dershowitz says he and the prince ended up not getting along because they disagreed about Israel.) Dershowitz visited Epstein’s mansions in New York and Palm Beach and occasionally accompanied him on his private plane. He says these trips were family oriented. Once, Epstein lent him the Palm Beach home so he could attend a granddaughter’s soccer tournament. Another time, he and his nephew flew down to watch a space launch with another Epstein connection, a top NASA official. He and his wife, Carolyn Cohen, once stayed with Epstein on his island in the Caribbean, where they were joined by another Harvard professor and his family. [...] In 2006, the world’s most famous brain visited Little St. James, Epstein’s private island, which came to be known as "Pedophile Island." Hawking, who was in the Caribbean for a conference, was photographed at a barbecue on the island and aboard a submarine for a tour. According to the Telegraph, "Epstein is said to have paid for the submarine to be modified for Professor Hawking, who had never been underwater before." Read More: Everything We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Private ‘Pedophile Island’
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-08-28): Chief Justice John Roberts heralded the significance of one of the biggest cases from last term, Trump v. United States, with the words, "This case poses a question of lasting significance: When may a former President be prosecuted for official acts taken during his Presidency? Our Nation has never before needed an answer. But in addressing that question today, unlike the political branches and the public at large, we cannot afford to fixate exclusively, or even primarily, on present exigencies." [...] Chief Justice Roberts easily writes the most important opinions according to these measures and he is far ahead of all of the other justices. Below him is a cluster of three more conservative members of the Court, Justices Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch. The second major cluster mixes conservative and progressive justices and includes Justices Kagan, Thomas, Breyer-Jackson, and Barrett leaving Justice Sotomayor on an island at the bottom. [...] As this writing suggests, Roberts often saves the most important decisions for himself.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Giuffre made no allegations of wrongdoing by Clinton, and there is no indication the sealed records contain evidence of illegal conduct by Clinton. But Giuffre's claim that she met the ex-president on Epstein's private Caribbean island emerged as a contentious issue in the litigation, which was settled in 2017. Maxwell contended Clinton had never been to Little St. James -- as Epstein's island was known -- and assailed Giuffre's claim as a fabrication that shattered her credibility. [...] Giuffre's lawyers pressed the Clinton issue again at a hearing in March 2017, six weeks before a trial was scheduled to begin. According to a publicly available transcript, Giuffre's team was then seeking to preclude Maxwell's side from presenting testimony suggesting that Clinton hadn't been on Epstein's island. Her attorneys argued it would be "inherently unfair" to Giuffre because they had not been permitted to ask the former president if he had ever been to Little St. James, as Epstein's private island estate was known. [...] Following Epstein's arrest for child sex trafficking in 2019, a spokesperson for Clinton, Angel Ureña, said in a statement that the former president "knows nothing" about Epstein's crimes. "He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade," the statement added, "and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida."