Trump Ratted Out Epstein to The Palm Beach Police

As Dems get all twisted about the number of times that Donald Trump is mentioned in the “Epstein Files” it seems that in at least one of those mentions he was throwing the known pedophile under the bus to the Palm Beach Police!

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.

President Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and has said that he cut off contact with his former friend more than 20 years ago.

Trump has claimed that he booted Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after discovering that he was poaching employees from the club’s spa.

According to reporting by the Herald, the FBI document recapping the interview with the local department’s former chief Michael Reiter, also shows that Trump referred to Epstein’s procurer Ghislaine Maxwell, as “evil” and that they should focus their attention on her.

When approached for comment, however, an official with the Department of Justice pushed back saying that the office was “not aware of any corroborating evidence that the President contacted law enforcement 20 years ago.”

Reiter served as the police chief in Palm Beach from 2001 to 2009. Reiter’s name was redacted from the FBI document released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) but confirmed to the Miami Herald that he was interviewed by the FBI in 2019 and that Trump called the police department regarding Epstein in July 2006, according to the paper. 

According to the Herald, Reiter currently heads a security and crisis management firm called Michael Reiter and Associates.

The FBI document recapping Reiter’s reported interview with federal officials contends that Trump allegedly called Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate, “evil” and warned that police should “focus on her.” 

“TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting,” the FBI document continued of the interview with the former police chief. “TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN’s operative, ‘she is evil and to focus on her,’” 

“TRUMP told (redacted) 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.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not confirm whether Trump did in fact make that phone call in 2006 when asked about it later Tuesday during a press briefing. 

“A phone call that may or may not have happened in 2006, I don’t know the answer to that question,” Leavitt said. “What I’m telling you is that 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.”

“And this call, if it did happen, corroborates exactly what President Trump has said from the beginning,” Leavitt said. 

Trump long has maintained that while he did at a time brush elbows with Epstein, he “threw him out” of his Mar-a-Lago resort back in the 2000s as details of his web of sex trafficking and pedophilia circulated. 

Reiter’s interview with the FBI also backed up Trump’s long-standing comments that he ended any ties to Epstein in the early 2000s. 

“Mar-A-Lago is a mixture of everyone,” the FBI document reads. “DONALD TRUMP told (redacted) that he threw EPSTEIN out of his club.”