Fact-checkers labeled false viral claims that former Attorney General Pam Bondi released explicit photographs of Trump after her dismissal, identifying the story as fabricated revenge porn fiction.
No reputable newsroom or court filing corroborates the alleged leak, and metadata on circulating images traces to unrelated adult content databases predating Trump’s second term.
Bondi’s exit from the Cabinet involved routine succession politics without public acrimony matching the scandalous narrative.
Platforms flagged the posts under non-consensual intimate imagery policies once users reported harassment targeting Bondi and Trump family accounts.
Legal scholars noted that distributing fake explicit images could still trigger state deepfake statutes even when subjects are public figures.
The hoax exemplifies recurring patterns where partisan audiences amplify sensational firings into sexualized conspiracy threads without primary sources.
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