Did Chris Wallace Vacation with Jeffrey Epstein?

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Following last week’s presidential debate, images started going viral on social media purporting to show debate moderator and Fox News host Chris Wallace on vacation with Jeffrey Epstein, evidence, according to some social media users, of Wallace’s “bias” against Trump. 

The images do not, in fact, depict Wallace and Epstein: They’re from Wallace’s well-documented trip to actor George Clooney’s vacation home in 2012. The pictures show Wallace with Clooney—Jeffrey Epstein is nowhere to be found—and higher-quality versions of the pictures, as well as other pictures from the trip, can be seen here and here.

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    rlritt

    Why would being with Epstein bias him against Trump? Trump is known to have socialized with Epstein.

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    Victor Clairmont

    My God....George Clooney is Jeffrey Epstein...


    And Hillary Clinton killed him!

    Thanks for the fact check Alec! Another mystery solved.

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  3. Raincheck

    But did he vacation with Jeffrey Dahmer? Come on, Alec, we need to know!

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    Angie

    Thanks for the work you do Alec, I really appreciate it, saves me time

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    DougAz

    Glad you are fact checking the vastly inane alt-right wing-nuts.. Sad.

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    Ohio Gas Hog

    I feel bad that you have to fact check a crazy question like this one, but thanks for taking one for the team. Now go take a shower!

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    Jason Gibson

    That is so obviously Clooney it isn’t even funny

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    Jonathan McAnulty

    We (as a society) seem to have lost all grace and charity towards any who may seem to belong to a slightly different tribe or philosophy. We want to believe that if someone doesn't support everything we support in the way we want it supported then they must be monsters, wickedness personified.

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      Scarlette Tarte

      No. We think people who believe stuff like Chris Wallace vacationing with Epstein, or that JFK, jr alive and hiding in Pennsylvania to ride out as the cavalry to help Trump uncover all the "Pedophile Dems" in the government are INANE, INSANE, WHACKO etc, etc.

      That has NOTHING to do with any philosophy. It has nothing to do with "what they support" politically.

      Those that believe those things, that cannot, or will not differentiate between conspiracy theory and fact, should absolutely be called out on it.

      And everyone should understand the difference.

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        Jonathan McAnulty

        I believe you misunderstand the thrust of my comment... It was not a criticism of the fact checkers here. It was a criticism of those, and those like them, who want to believe that because Wallace asked Trump tough questions, he must be part of some evil cabal. The Qanon phenomena is just a symptom of a larger problem.

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  9. David D

    Is there an emoji for pounding your head into your desk?

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    MG

    Yes, but have we considered whether George Clooney is Jeffrey Epstein?

    I’ve never seen them in the same room...

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