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On 9 November 2016, Facebook user Margot Gerster published a photograph of herself and Hillary Clinton on a hiking trail, along with a touching story about having randomly encountered the defeated Democratic presidential nominee the day after the election.: Shortly after Gerster posted her account on Facebook, web sites such as Fellowships of the Mind published articles claiming that the incident had been staged. These articles lacked the evidence required to back up such a claim, relying solely on a single photograph that had been taken years earlier: However, the above-displayed photograph does not prove that Gerster knows Hillary very well. Instead, it proves that she had once met Clinton at a fundraiser several years earlier while she was in high school, an incident that shouldn't be too surprising given Gerster's support for the Democratic politician. (It's tough to read, but Gerster's comment says: Back in high school ... at a fundraiser my mom hosted at the Kittle House. She was the guest of honor.) No evidence was offered showing that Clinton and Gerster had been in touch between the fundraiser dinner years earlier and their chance encounter on a hiking trail in November 2016. On 12 November 2016, Gerster denied that the photograph had been staged to the New York Post: The photograph showing Hillary Clinton with a hiker the day after the 2016 presidential election is real. While it's true that Margot Gerster had once previously met Clinton while Gerster was in high school, this is not evidence that they had an ongoing relationship, that she's a secret operative, or that the photograph on the hiking trail was staged.
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