A former Palm Seaside, Florida, police chief who investigated Jeffrey Epstein within the mid-2000s informed the FBI he had obtained a name from Donald Trump on the time to say “thank goodness you’re stopping him, everybody has identified he’s been doing this,” in keeping with an FBI account of an interview with the ex-police chief in 2019.
The Miami Herald was the primary to report on the doc.
President Trump has repeatedly denied any information of Epstein’s crimes and has stated that he reduce off contact along with his former buddy greater than 20 years in the past.
Trump has claimed that he booted Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after discovering that he was poaching workers from the membership’s spa.
Paperwork that had been included within the U.S. Division of Justice launch of the Jeffrey Epstein information are photographed Friday, Jan. 2, 2026.
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The police chief’s title — Michael Reiter — is redacted from the doc on the Division of Justice’s web site, however the info within the FBI assertion tracks with beforehand public details about Reiter’s position within the investigation that started in 2005.
Reiter’s detectives had been investigating Epstein for allegedly recruiting ladies as younger as 14 years previous to supply massages that turned sexual.
The details about Trump’s alleged name makes up only a small a part of a 4-page FBI report summarizing Reiter’s testimony in October 2019, two months after Epstein’s dying.
“DONALD TRUMP informed [Reiter] that he threw EPSTEIN out of his membership. TRUMP known as the [Palm Beach Police Department] to inform him ‘thank goodness you are stopping him, everybody has identified he is been doing this,” the FBI report of Reiter’s assertion says.
Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee have launched further images from the property of Jeffrey Epstein, together with ones of Donald Trump and Invoice Clinton.
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The alleged name from Trump got here in July 2006, across the time the main points of the police investigation grew to become public, in keeping with a supply acquainted with the timing.
“TRUMP informed him individuals in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting. TRUMP stated MAXWELL was EPSTEIN’s operative, ‘she is evil and to give attention to her,’ the report continues. “TRUMP informed [Reiter] that he was round EPSTEIN as soon as when youngsters had been current and TRUMP ‘obtained the hell out of there.’ TRUMP was one of many very first individuals to name when individuals came upon that they had been investigating EPSTEIN,” the report of Reiter’s assertion stated.
The account of Trump’s alleged name to Reiter, as summarized within the FBI doc, has not beforehand been reported.
Reiter was a central determine within the first regulation enforcement probe of Epstein in Florida.
After repeatedly sparring behind the scenes with native prosecutors, Reiter went public in 2006, expressing his displeasure with the native prosecutor’s choice to take the case to a grand jury as an alternative of charging Epstein straight.
Reiter apologized to the victims for the best way the case had been dealt with by the prosecutor after which coordinated with federal authorities to launch one other investigation into Epstein, which finally led to Epstein’s non-prosecution settlement in 2008.
Reiter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark concerning the account of his statements to the FBI.
