The document shows that Trump contacted the police about Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
According to a newly released document, President Trump contacted the police department in Palm Beach, Florida in 2006 about Jeffrey Epstein’s misconduct.
“Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump reportedly said, according to the document.
The document is a written record of an FBI interview that a former Palm Beach County police chief told a local news outlet he gave in 2019.
The local news outlet reported that the interview was with Michael Reiter, the Palm Beach police chief at the time of Trump’s call. His name is redacted in the document.
According to the report, Trump reportedly said Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was “Epstein’s operative,” and that “she is evil and to focus on her.”
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2021 of conspiring with Epstein and aiding in his abuse crimes. She recently invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination under questioning from the House Oversight Committee.
The document also said that Trump was around Epstein while teenagers were present and “got the hell out of there.”
Reiter described his conversation with Trump to the FBI in October 2019, two months after Epstein was found deceased in his jail cell while awaiting trial.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt could not confirm on Tuesday whether the call actually took place. “It was a phone call that may or may not have happened in 2006. I don’t know the answer to that question. What I’m telling you is what President Trump has always said, is that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club because Jeffrey Epstein was a creep, and that remains true,” she said during a press briefing.
President Trump has previously commented on breaking ties with Epstein, saying the end of their relationship came after Epstein poached employees from his Mar-a-Lago spa.
A Justice Department official said, “We are not aware of any corroborating evidence that the President contacted law enforcement 20 years ago.”
Trump has repeatedly denied knowledge of Epstein abusing underage girls. In July 2019, he said he “had no idea” that Epstein “was molesting young women, underaged women” when asked by reporters.
President Trump and the White House have said that Trump broke ties with Epstein in the early 2000s.
