A new FBI document, which hasn’t been previously revealed, details how in 2006 President Trump called a local police chief in Palm Beach, Florida, to thank him for investigating Jeffrey Epstein.
Here’s more from ABC News:
A former Palm Beach, Florida, police chief who investigated Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-2000s told the FBI he had received a call from Donald Trump at the time to say “thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” according to an FBI account of an interview with the ex-police chief in 2019.
The Miami Herald was the first to report on the document.
The police chief’s name — Michael Reiter — is redacted from the document on the Department of Justice’s website, but the information in the FBI statement tracks with previously public information about Reiter’s role in the investigation that began in 2005.
Reiter’s detectives were investigating Epstein for allegedly recruiting girls as young as 14 years old to provide massages that turned sexual.
The information about Trump’s alleged call makes up just a small part of a 4-page FBI report summarizing Reiter’s testimony in October 2019, two months after Epstein’s death.
“DONALD TRUMP told [Reiter] that he threw EPSTEIN out of his club. TRUMP called the [Palm Beach Police Department] to tell him ‘thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” the FBI report of Reiter’s statement says.
The alleged call from Trump came in July 2006, around the time the details of the police investigation became public, according to a source familiar with the timing.
“TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting. TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN’s operative, ‘she is evil and to focus on her,’ the report continues. “TRUMP told [Reiter] that he was around EPSTEIN once when teenagers were present and TRUMP ‘got the hell out of there.’ TRUMP was one of the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating EPSTEIN,” the report of Reiter’s statement said.
The account of Trump’s alleged call to Reiter, as summarized in the FBI document, has not previously been reported.
Reiter was a central figure in the first law enforcement probe of Epstein in Florida.
Democrats have been continually trying to tie President Trump to Epstein, but this is definitive proof that what Trump has been saying all along is true, that he was disgusted by Epstein and wanted law enforcement to stop him.
Boom.