The latest document dump from the Justice Department’s Epstein files has reignited media obsession, but buried in the noise is a detail that cuts directly against years of lazy insinuations about President Trump. A newly unsealed FBI interview from 2019 confirms that Trump personally contacted Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter in July 2006, right after Jeffrey Epstein’s first indictment became public. The call was not defensive, evasive, or self serving. It was blunt, angry, and unmistakably on the side of law enforcement.
According to the FBI summary, Trump told Reiter, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this.” That statement alone demolishes the preferred narrative pushed by cable panels and social media activists who have spent years trying to lump Trump in with Epstein’s crimes. Trump was not circling the wagons. He was applauding the investigation and urging police to keep going.
Trump also warned Reiter about Ghislaine Maxwell, calling her “evil” and pushing authorities to “focus on her,” describing her as Epstein’s “operative.” History proved that assessment correct. Maxwell is now serving a 20 year federal prison sentence for s*x trafficking. Trump clocked her role nearly two decades before prosecutors finally acted.
Even more telling, Trump recounted being in Epstein’s presence when teenagers were around and said he “got the hell out of there.” That is not the language of someone comfortable with what was going on. It is the reaction of someone who recognized a line being crossed and wanted nothing to do with it. Reiter noted Trump was among the first people to call once the probe became public, even though he was not offering new evidence or trying to curry favor.
This matters because context matters. Trump and Epstein were social acquaintances in the 1990s and early 2000s, as were half the wealthy elites in Palm Beach. That relationship deteriorated sharply around 2004. By 2007, Epstein was permanently banned from Mar A Lago. The ban followed allegations that Epstein pressured an 18 year old spa worker for s*x during a house call and harassed the teenage daughter of another club member. When the girl’s father complained directly to Trump, Epstein’s access was revoked in no uncertain terms.
Contrast that with how other powerful figures behaved, many of whom stayed silent, distant, or oddly incurious. Epstein himself later fumed about Trump in emails and recordings from 2017 to 2019, calling him a “horrible human being,” “evil beyond belief,” and “borderline insane.” He even texted U.S. Delegate Stacey Plaskett with suggestions on how to attack Trump during a 2019 congressional hearing. That does not sound like a man protecting an ally.
The document release comes via the Epstein Files Transparency Act, pushed by Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, which forced the DOJ to declassify millions of pages. As more material comes out, the pattern is becoming harder to ignore. President Trump distanced himself early, warned authorities, and took decisive action when allegations touched his property. The facts are inconvenient for some, but they are still facts.
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