Trump knew about Epstein misconduct in 2006, new report alleges

This was a famous question asked by Howard Baker as the Watergate scandal shook Richard Nixon.

“What did the president know and when did he know it?” declared the Tennessee senator.

Apparently there were too many, and Nixon resigned rather than face specific impeachment and conviction.

Now, more than half a century later, the same question is being asked about another president.

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It’s important to say upfront that the long-awaited Jeffrey Epstein files do not produce a single piece of evidence that Donald Trump personally engaged in sexual misconduct.

But he knew much more than he let on.

Thanks to continuous reporting Miami Herald Trump knew exactly what was going on between the reprehensible pedophile and the underage girls, said Julie Brown, who has been covering up the story since Epstein’s 2008 sweetheart plea deal.

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The news is based in part on a 2019 FBI interview with former Palm Beach police Chief Michael Reiter.

Reiter said that in the summer of 2006, Trump called him and told him that everyone in Palm Beach and New York was aware of Epstein’s sexual activities with minors.

He also said Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s supporter and one-time girlfriend who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was “evil” and the focus should be on her.

“Thank goodness you’re stopping this, everyone knew he was doing this,” Reiter recalled Trump saying, referring to an Epstein investigation the chief launched three years ago.

What’s more, the chief said Trump told him “he was once around Epstein when the teenagers were there and ‘got the hell out of there.'”

Trump reportedly sounded the alarm about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell nearly two decades ago. (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

During this period, a woman called authorities and said that her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been molested by Epstein and that other girls at the same high school had also massaged, assaulted or raped Epstein.

Reiter took the case to the state attorney, who declined to press charges, and then went to the FBI.

“Of course he knew about the girls and begged Ghislaine to stop,” Epstein wrote in a 2019 email before committing suicide in prison.

That same year, when asked by reporters whether he was aware of Epstein’s depraved pedophilia, the president replied: “No, I had no idea. I had no idea.”

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Bullshit deal: Prosecutors gave Epstein federal immunity in exchange for pleading guilty to two crimes, including one involving a minor. He served for 13 months.

Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, working with Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, named six people whose files were inexplicably redacted yesterday. This protected them from public disclosure.

“There were six rich and powerful men that the DOJ was hiding for no apparent reason,” Khanna said.

Khanna and Massie were allowed to review unredacted files for two hours.

Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., were allowed to view unedited files for two hours. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Khanna named them on the floor of the Parliament, where he has immunity:

“Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Leslie Wexner, CEO of Dubai Ports World and billionaire businessman labeled a conspirator by the FBI.

“Now my question is: Why did Thomas Massie and I have to go to the Department of Justice to have the identities of these six men made public? And if we find the six men they hid in two hours, imagine how many men they hid in those 3 million files.”

That’s really the question. Why were they protected from public exposure? How many more are there?

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Summoned by Republican James Comer’s Oversight Committee, Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and stated that she would continue to do so unless Trump showed her clemency.

Trump dropped some hints when he and Epstein were still friendly. In a 2002 interview with New York Magazine, Trump described him as “a great guy… in fact, it is said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and most of them are on the younger side.”

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The Epstein files have been politically toxic for Trump since the beginning of his second term. And now the plot thickens.