From left, Donald Trump and his female friend (and future spouse), mature mannequin Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted intercourse culprit) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Seaside, Florida on Feb. 12, 2000.
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President Donald Trump, in a call two decades up to now to a Florida police chief, bashed his mature fair appropriate friend Jeffrey Epstein and called Epstein’s procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, “evil,” the now-retired cop recounted to FBI agents in 2019, in step with a report released by the Department of Justice.
Trump called the then-Palm Seaside Police Chief Michael Reiter “to tell him ‘thank goodness you’ [are] stopping [Epstein], everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Reiter educated the FBI in October 2019, in step with the FBI report, acknowledged as a 302.
Reiter’s name is redacted from the 302. Nonetheless the report identifies the interview area because the particular particular person that had been Palm Seaside’s police chief at the time of the division’s investigation of Epstein, who changed into once Reiter.
Reiter educated the Miami Herald, which first reported the report, that Trump called him in 2006, after the police division’s probe of Epstein grew to alter into publicly acknowledged.
The report came to light hours after Maxwell’s attorney called on Trump to grant her govt clemency, so that she could perhaps additionally thunder “honestly” about what she knows. Maxwell, earlier Monday, refused to testify to a Rental committee.
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Trump educated Reiter that he had thrown Epstein out of his club, Mar-a-Lago, which is located in Palm Seaside, the summary mentioned.
“Trump told him [Reiter] people in New York knew Epstein was disgusting,” in step with the FBI’s 302 summary of its interview with Reiter.
“Trump said Maxwell was Epstein’s operative, ‘she is evil and to focus on her,’ ” the FBI mentioned in the 302.
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Epstein later pleaded responsible to Florida command charges in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from an underage lady, in alternate for avoiding federal criminal prosecution.
Reiter’s interview with the FBI in October 2019 came two months after Epstein killed himself in a Sleek York federal detention center after being arrested on small one intercourse trafficking charges.
Eventually of the 2006 call, “Trump told [Reiter] that he was around Epstein once when teenagers were present and Trump got the hell out of there,” the summary mentioned.
“Trump was one of the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating Epstein,” the summary mentioned.
In an April 2019 e-mail released closing year by Rental Democrats, Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls,” in step with a reproduction of that message purportedly between the two men.
It is unclear what the phrase “knew about the girls” intended.
Trump has no longer been accused of wrongdoing in reference to Epstein.
The White Rental in November mentioned, “The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees.”
The White Rental, when requested for insist on Monday evening by CNBC in regards to the FBI summary, referred inquiries to the Department of Justice.
The DOJ mentioned, “We are not aware of any corroborating evidence that the President contacted law enforcement 20 years ago.”
The summary is amongst hundreds of thousands of paperwork made public by the DOJ in leisurely January that are connected to Epstein and to Maxwell, who’s serving a 20-year penal advanced time duration for crimes connected to procuring underage ladies for him to sexually abuse.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump are shown on this portray released by the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., U.S., on December 23, 2025 as section of a weird trove of paperwork from its investigations into the leisurely financier and convicted intercourse culprit Jeffrey Epstein. U.S.
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Maxwell on Monday regarded practically about forward of the Rental Oversight Committee, which is investigating the Epstein case, but refused to answer to questions, citing her Fifth Modification ethical in opposition to self-incrimination.
Her licensed first rate, David Oscar Marcus, in an announcement, mentioned that Maxwell is ready to “speak fully and honestly” if Trump grants her govt clemency. Clemency can encompass a pardon, which could perhaps wipe away Maxwell’s conviction, or commuting her sentence to allow her liberate from penal advanced sooner than scheduled.
“Only she can provide the complete account. Some may not like what they hear, but the truth matters,” Marcus mentioned. “For example, both President Trump and President [Bill] Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing. Ms Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to that explanation.”
Clinton and his spouse, mature Secretary of Sigh Hillary Clinton, were subpoenaed to testify to the Oversight Committee about Epstein. They are scheduled to be deposed there in leisurely February.