From ABC News: 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.
The police chief’s name, Michael Reiter, is redacted from the DOJ document, but the FBI statement aligns with public information about Reiter’s role in the 2005 investigation into Epstein’s alleged recruitment of underage girls for sexual favors.
A 4-page report on Reiter’s 2019 testimony includes information about Trump’s alleged call.
“DONALD TRUMP told [Reiter] that he threw EPSTEIN out of his club. TRUMP called the [Palm Beach Police Department] to tell him ‘thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” the FBI report of Reiter’s statement says.
Trump allegedly also told Reiter that Maxwell was Epstein’s “operative,” that “she is evil,” and directing authorities to “focus on her,” according to statements cited in the document.
A former 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.https://t.co/CElof3Q6Wv
— ABC News (@ABC) February 10, 2026
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— Forbes (@Forbes) February 9, 2026
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