Does a viral image on social media prove that Justice Department files show Jeffrey Epstein once wrote that Donald Trump calls "black girls" "boogers"? No, that's not true: Multiple searches across the Department of Justice website did not show such an email. The viral screenshot is unlikely to be authentic because it contains a reference to a domain registered months after Epstein's death.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on February 1, 2026, on X. It opened:
Trump directly implicated by Epstein not only as a sex pest but as a racist...
The post shared what looked like an email from a cache of Epstein files released by the Department of Justice. The screenshot of the electronic exchange, in part, read:
On Sat, June 22, 2013, at 10:14 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein"< [email protected] <mailto: jeevacation.com >>wrote:trump will be there, doesnt like black girls,, calls them 'boogers' , wont go w in 10 feet
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/roguesnradvisor)
In a sexually explicit, derogatory slang context, "booger" (archived here) has several meanings.
When Lead Stories searched the website of the Department of Justice (archived here) for the keywords from the supposed quote, it showed no matches:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of search results page at doj.gov)
A search for "boogers" produced one result:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of search results page at doj.gov)
Though explicit, that file (archived here) did not say what the post on X claimed: It wasn't written by Epstein and did not mention Trump or Black women in the body of the email:
A broad search for the title of the supposed email, "NYC Plans", only produced the results dated 2017, not 2013, as the post in question claimed.
Additionally, it's unclear how "mailto" could have been followed by "jeevacation.com" -- a domain, not a specific email address. A search for it across DoJ files in the Epstein library yielded no matches.
While no website is currently linked to the jeevacation.com domain, WhoIs records show that it remains active. Yet, it couldn't be part of any authentic correspondence authored by Epstein because that domain was registered on December 30, 2019, more than four months after his death in August of that year (archived here):
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of page at whois.domaintools.com/jeevacation.com)
Thus, although the DoJ removed (archived here) thousands of pages from the Epstein library to reduce disclosure of victims' information as of this writing, it is unlikely that what the viral "screenshot" showed was one of those files taken down for further redaction.
