Overview
- On Friday reporters and lawmakers documented that gopdallas2026.com sent users to the Justice Department’s publicly released Epstein Library, and the domain was later taken offline or set to private.
- Registration records show the domain was created on July 7 and the owner’s contact information was masked through registrar privacy protections, leaving attribution unclear.
- The Republican Party publicly denounced the link as fake and directed users to the verified site gopconvention.com, while no one has publicly claimed responsibility for the imposter page.
- The Lincoln Project helped amplify the link online and Democratic figures treated the redirect as a political provocation, while coverage from outlets across the spectrum focused on the SEO tactic that put the impostor ahead of the official site.
- An independent exhibit by the Institute for Primary Facts will display printed copies of the DOJ Epstein Files in Dallas from Sept. 8–11, which will keep the records visible to convention attendees and intensify debate over redactions, privacy and political use of the documents.