Claim
Former US president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton photographed leaving the country aboard a Delta Airlines flight, before the US Department of Justice released Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs and his contact list on Thursday (February 27).
The archived version of the post can be seen here.
Jeffrey Epstein Files Out
The Department of Justice on Thursday released Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs and his contact list, which includes names like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Naomi Campbell, Chris Tucker among others. Reports have stated that the first wave of files posted on the Justice Department website have largely been circulating in the public domain for years and didn’t include any new bombshells about the sex trafficking case that has been a favourite subject of conspiracy theorists.
Fact
Newschecker did not find any credible news reports about Bill and Hillary Clinton leaving the US ahead of the release of the Epstein files, raising our doubts on the photograph.
Newschecker then ran a reverse image search, which led us to this Daily Mail news report, dated July 9, 2018, featuring the same photo. “Bill and Hillary Clinton (above on Sunday) flew commercial on both Friday and Sunday, travelling from New York to Washington DC for the weekend,” read the caption of the photo. According to the report, Bill and Hillary Clinton took a rare trip together over the weekend, with the pair heading down to Washington DC on Friday and then returning to New York on Sunday. “And in an even rarer move, the two flew commercial, which gave their fellow Delta passengers and travellers at Ronald Reagan International Airport a chance to snag a selfie with the former president and former secretary of state, read the report. A similar report can be seen here, further confirming that the viral photo is not recent
We also came across this Lead Stories fact-check report, dated February 27, 2025, stating that the photo circulating on social media is from July 8, 2018, published in a Daily Mail article the next day, which shows the Clintons on a domestic flight from Washington, D.C. to New York.
Source
Daily Mail report, July 8, 2018
