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Trump Ratted Out Epstein to The Palm Beach Police

&NewLine;<p>As Dems get all twisted about the number of times that Donald Trump is mentioned in the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;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&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A former Palm Beach&comma; Florida&comma; 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&comma; &&num;8220&semi;thank goodness you’re stopping him&comma; everyone has known he’s been doing this&comma;&&num;8221&semi; according to&nbsp&semi;an FBI account of an interview&nbsp&semi;with the ex-police chief in 2019&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Miami Herald was the first to report on the document&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump&nbsp&semi;has claimed that he booted Epstein from Mar-a-Lago&nbsp&semi;after discovering that he was poaching employees from the club’s spa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to reporting by the Herald&comma; the FBI document recapping the interview with the local department&&num;8217&semi;s former chief Michael Reiter&comma; also shows that Trump referred to Epstein’s procurer Ghislaine Maxwell&comma; as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;evil” and that they should focus their attention on her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>When approached for comment&comma; however&comma; an official with the Department of Justice pushed back saying that the office was &&num;8220&semi;not aware of any corroborating evidence that the President contacted law enforcement 20 years ago&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Reiter served as the police chief in Palm Beach from 2001 to 2009&period; Reiter&&num;8217&semi;s name was redacted from the FBI document released by the Department of Justice &lpar;DOJ&rpar; but confirmed to the&nbsp&semi;Miami Herald&nbsp&semi;that he was interviewed by the FBI in 2019 and that Trump called the police department regarding Epstein in July 2006&comma; according to the paper&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to the Herald&comma; Reiter currently heads a security and crisis management firm called Michael Reiter and Associates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The FBI document recapping Reiter&&num;8217&semi;s reported interview with federal officials contends that Trump allegedly called Maxwell&comma; Epstein&&num;8217&semi;s longtime associate&comma; &&num;8220&semi;evil&&num;8221&semi; and warned that police should &&num;8220&semi;focus on her&period;&&num;8221&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;TRUMP told him people in New York knew&nbsp&semi;EPSTEIN&nbsp&semi;was disgusting&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the FBI document continued of the interview with the former police chief&period; &&num;8220&semi;TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN&&num;8217&semi;s operative&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;she is evil and to focus on her&comma;’&&num;8221&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;TRUMP told &lpar;redacted&rpar; that he was around EPSTEIN once when teenagers were present and TRUMP &OpenCurlyQuote;got the hell out of there&period;&&num;8217&semi; TRUMP was one of the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating EPSTEIN&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>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&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;A phone call that may or may not have happened in 2006&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know the answer to that question&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Leavitt said&period; &&num;8220&semi;What I&&num;8217&semi;m telling you is that what President Trump has always said&comma; is that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-A-Lago club because Jeffrey Epstein was a creep&period; And that remains true&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And this call&comma; if it did happen&comma; corroborates exactly what President Trump has said from the beginning&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Leavitt said&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Trump long has maintained that while he did at a time brush elbows with Epstein&comma; he &&num;8220&semi;threw him out&&num;8221&semi; of his Mar-a-Lago resort back in the 2000s as details of his web of sex trafficking and pedophilia circulated&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Reiter&&num;8217&semi;s interview with the FBI also backed up Trump&&num;8217&semi;s long-standing comments that he ended any ties to Epstein in the early 2000s&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Mar-A-Lago is a mixture of everyone&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the FBI document reads&period; &&num;8220&semi;DONALD TRUMP told &lpar;redacted&rpar; that he threw EPSTEIN out of his club&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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