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Public reporting and fact-checking confirm an excerpt from Ashley Biden’s stolen diary that says she showered with her father and called it “probably not appropriate,” but the diary does not state her...
Ashley Biden’s journal entries that surfaced in 2020 include a passage saying showers with her father as a child were “probably not appropriate,” and multiple fact-checkers and court filings have trea...
Available sources show Ashley Biden’s highly publicized statements about her father center on material that surfaced from a stolen diary (sold to Project Veritas and later publicized) in which she wro...
Candace Owens has publicly claimed that the White House and U.S. counterterrorism/intelligence agencies “confirmed receipt” of her allegation that French President Emmanuel Macron attempted to organiz...
The principal facts: a personal diary belonging to Ashley Biden was stolen in 2020 and later sold to Project Veritas; two Florida residents pleaded guilty in the theft and one seller was sentenced to ...
Available reporting shows an alleged diary that at times references sexualized experiences and the line “Was I molested. I think so.” has circulated in media and online; Project Veritas and other outl...
Ashley Biden has acknowledged a diary page describing “showers with my dad (probably not appropriate)” and confirmed the journal’s authenticity in a 2024 letter, which has been widely reported and cit...
Public reporting establishes that a personal journal belonging to Ashley Biden was stolen in 2020, sold to conservative operatives and portions were published online, and Ashley Biden herself confirme...
Available reporting traces the claim that President Joe Biden “showered with his daughter” primarily to a leaked diary attributed to his daughter Ashley Biden that described childhood showers as “prob...
Reporting shows the stolen journal long traced to a 2020 theft and later sold to Project Veritas (reported purchase amounts range $20,000–$40,000) and that Ashley Biden acknowledged the diary’s existe...
Ashley Biden publicly described the theft and publication of her diary as a painful invasion of privacy and sought punishment for those who sold it; she told a judge she would not attend a sentencing ...
Coverage shows that a private diary belonging to Ashley Biden was taken and sold in 2020, leading to a federal prosecution of the person who sold it and confirmation in court filings that the diary ex...
Public reporting indicates the physical diary stolen from Ashley Biden was sold to Project Veritas after two Florida residents admitted stealing and transporting it, and Ashley Biden herself has ackno...
Fact‑checking organizations initially treated the leaked pages attributed to Ashley Biden’s journal as unproven or lacking independent authentication, but at least one prominent fact‑checker—Snopes—re...
No — there is no verified, publicly available evidence that President Joe Biden showered with his daughter Ashley “until she was 13 years old.” Portions of a purported diary attributed to Ashley Biden...
Two Florida residents pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal and sell personal items belonging to Ashley Biden and one of those women, Aimee Harris, was sentenced to one month in federal prison, home con...
The alleged Ashley Biden diary — purportedly taken from a Florida home in 2020 and published by right-leaning outlets — became both a criminal matter and a political flashpoint from 2020 through 2023,...
The Biden campaign publicly denied and dismissed the diary story as disinformation and a politically motivated distraction during the closing weeks of the 2020 campaign . Reporting since then has docu...
Reporting shows pages from a handwritten journal attributed to Ashley Biden were first published in October 2020 by the conservative outlet National File, which says it obtained the diary via a whistl...
Reporting based on the documents and articles in the provided set says the 2020 leak of Ashley Biden’s diary produced passages describing her struggles with addiction, references to trauma and a line ...