Is an email from the Epstein files with a joke about Mitt Romney's wife and Barack Obama real? Yes, that's true: The email appears among the Epstein files on the Justice Department website. It was sent to Jeffrey Epstein by Emirati businessman and billionaire Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem in November 2012.
The claim appeared in a post and image (archived here) by the @Kattergang account on X on July 8, 2026. It read:
I'm not a Mitt Romney fan, but this is so cruel 🥀
This is what the image looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @Kattergang on X.)
The text in the image read:
The night before the election, Mitt Romney was very confident & told his wife Ann: '...this time tomorrow night, you'll be...sleeping with the President of the United States'.
After Mitt's concession speech, they headed to bed.
Ann was getting undressed when she asked,..'...so how does this work? Is Barrack [sic] coming over here or I'm supposed to go over there?'
The email (archived here) sent by Sulayem to Epstein appears in a document in the Epstein library hosted on the Justice Department website. The correspondence is dated Nov. 17, 2012, less than two weeks after Obama defeated Romney in the 2012 presidential election on Nov. 6, 2012.
