GOP Midterm Convention Website Redirects To The Epstein Files Instead

Google's highest-ranked result for searches for the Republican Midterm Convention instead leads to the Department of Justice library of the Epstein Files.
GOP Midterm Convention Website Redirects To The Epstein Files Instead
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By Ed Scarce — September 5, 2026

Seems entirely appropriate to me.

Source: New York Times

Republicans eager to find out more about the party’s first-of-its-kind midterm convention in Dallas next week got a surprise this week: a website that initially purported to be the Republican National Committee’s official convention page but then redirected to the Justice Department’s library of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender.

It wasn’t a hack. The real convention site, at gopconvention.com, remains operational, prominently featuring an outline of Texas and this bold claim: “The Golden Age of America Has Just Begun.”

Some users searching for the site on Google, however, were directed to an impostor website — at gopdallas2026.com — that earned a spot much higher in search results than the real site.

Google’s preview of the fake page promises “details about the 2026 RNC Midterm Convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, Sept. 9-10 including registration, VIP experiences.”

It does not deliver anything of the sort. Instead, a click on the site takes the user to “justice.gov/epstein,” something of a headache for Republicans and President Trump, whose ties to Mr. Epstein have angered the MAGA base and served as an ongoing irritant in an election year expected to be a referendum on his presidency.

No one is quite sure who put up gopdallasconvention2026.com (possibly the Lincoln Project), but those who click the link get quite a surprise.

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