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A viral post shared on X claims the White House will appear on the national registry of sex offenders after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Verdict: False
A national sex offender registry does not exist. In addition, the viral X post appears to refer to a 2023 civil case in which Trump was found liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996, according to The Associated Press.
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The X post, viewed over five million times as of writing, claims the White House will appear on the national registry of sex offenders after Trump takes office.
“As of January 20, this address will, for the next 4 years, appear on the national registry of sex offenders. What a country,” the X post reads. The post includes a photo of the White House exterior but does not provide a source to support its claim.
The claim is false. The viral X post appears to be referring to a 2023 civil case in which Trump was found liable for sexually abusing Carroll in 1996, according to
The Associated Press. Carroll had accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room in a Manhattan department store in her 2019 memoir, but the jury rejected the claim. Trump denied the accusations saying he did not know Carroll and had not encountered her at the department store, the outlet reported.
Carroll sued Trump under the “New York State Adult Survivors Act,” a “state bill which opened a look-back window for sexual assault allegations like Carroll’s with long-expired statutes of limitation,” according to
CNN.
Likewise, a national sex offender registry does not exist. However, there are sex offender registries for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Territories, and Indian Country, according to
the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s website.
Check Your Fact has contacted multiple legal experts for comment.