Trump bashed ex-pal, Maxwell to police
From left, Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 12, 2000.
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President Donald Trump attacked his former friend Jeffrey Epstein and called Epstein’s procurer Ghislaine Maxwell “evil” in a phone call to a Florida police chief two decades ago, according to a report; That’s what the now-retired cop told FBI agents in 2019. Document published by the Ministry of Justice.
Trump called then-Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter and said, “Thank God.” [are] Stop [Epstein]“Everyone knows he did this,” Reiter told the FBI in October 2019, according to FBI document known as 302.
Reiter’s name has been removed from 302. But the document identifies the interviewee as Reiter, the man who was Palm Beach’s police chief at the time of the department’s investigation into Epstein.
Reiter said: Miami HeraldThe newspaper was the first to report the document in which Trump sought him in 2006, after the police department’s investigation into Epstein became public.
The document emerged just hours after Maxwell’s lawyer asked Trump for an executive pardon so she could speak “honestly” about what she knew. Maxwell declined to testify to a House committee earlier Monday.
The summary stated that Trump told Reiter that he kicked Epstein out of his club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach.
“Trump told him [Reiter] People in New York knew Epstein was disgusting,” according to 302 summaries of the FBI’s interview with Reiter.
“Trump said Maxwell was Epstein’s agent, ‘she’s a bad person and the focus should be on her,'” FBI 302 said. he said.
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Epstein later pleaded guilty in 2008 to Florida state charges of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl in exchange for avoiding a federal criminal investigation.
Reiter’s interview with the FBI in October 2019 came two months after Epstein killed himself in a New York federal prison after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges.
During the 2006 meeting, Trump said: [Reiter] The summary stated that he was once with Epstein when young people were there and Trump got the hell out of there.
“When people learned they were investigating Epstein, Trump was one of the first people to call,” the summary said.
On April Fool’s Day 2019 email According to a copy of that document released by House Democrats last year, Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolff that Trump “knew about girls.” message It is alleged that it was between two men.
It is unclear what the phrase “he knew about the girls” means.
Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.
“The fact remains that decades ago, President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club for terrorizing his female employees,” the White House said in November.
The White House referred questions to the Justice Department Monday night when asked for comment on CNBC’s FBI summary.
“We are not aware of any corroborating evidence that the President had contact with law enforcement 20 years ago,” the Justice Department said.
The summary is among millions of documents made public by the Justice Department in late January related to Epstein and Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for crimes related to procuring underage girls for him to sexually abuse.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump are shown in this footage released by the US Department of Justice in Washington DC on December 23, 2025, as part of a trove of new documents from their investigation into late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. WE
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Maxwell appeared virtually before the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating the Epstein case, on Monday but refused to answer questions, citing her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Maxwell is willing to “speak fully and honestly” if Trump grants her executive clemency, her lawyer David Oscar Marcus said in a statement. Clemency could include a pardon that would expunge Maxwell’s conviction or a commutation of her sentence that would allow her to be released earlier than planned.
“Only he can present the full narrative. Some may not like what they hear, but the facts matter,” Marcus said. “For example, both President Trump and President [Bill] Clinton is innocent of any wrongdoing. “Only Ms. Maxwell can explain why, and the public has the right to do so.”
Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were subpoenaed to testify about Epstein before the Oversight Committee. They are scheduled to be questioned there in late February.
