{"id":129610,"date":"2026-02-11T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129610\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:58:42","slug":"trump-told-palm-beach-police-chief-thank-goodness-youre-stopping-epstein-called-ghislaine-maxwell-evil-in-2006-phone-call-fbi-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129610\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘thank goodness you’re stopping’ Epstein, called Ghislaine Maxwell ‘evil’ in 2006 phone call: FBI document"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump personally called the police chief of Palm Beach, Fla., in 2006 to thank him for investigating Jeffrey Epstein <\/a>\u2014 and told him to \u201cfocus on\u201d the disgraced financier\u2019s \u201cevil\u201d accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, according to a newly released FBI document.<\/p>\n

According to the summary of an October 2019 interview of Michael Reiter, who served as the wealthy Florida enclave\u2019s top cop from 2001 to 2009, the future president was \u201cone of the very first people to call when people found out\u201d that authorities were investigating Epstein for sex with girls as young as 14 whom he had hired to give him massages.<\/p>\n

\"DonaldDonald and Melania Trump with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThank goodness you\u2019re stopping him, everyone has known he\u2019s been doing this,\u201d Trump was quoted as telling Reiter on the call, adding that he \u201cgot the hell out of there\u201d on one occasion when he was around Epstein while teenagers were present.<\/p>\n

The summary, first reported by the Miami Herald<\/a>, added that Trump told Reiter he \u201cthrew\u201d Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago<\/a> and that \u201cpeople in New York knew Epstein was disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also referred to Maxwell as \u201cEpstein\u2019s operative,\u201d telling the chief \u201cshe is evil and to focus on her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reiter\u2019s name is redacted in the interview summary, but details in the document match up with publicly known information about his role in the Epstein probe.<\/p>\n

According to the chief, he met Epstein after the financier reported one of his employees for stealing from him.<\/p>\n

Reiter recounted that Epstein donated $40,000 to the department for the purchase of a machine to review security footage, cut a $90,000 check (never cashed) to buy a fingerprinting machine around the time his first victim came forward, and gave \u201cmore than others\u201d to a police scholarship fund for children.<\/p>\n

\"BritishGhislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in an undated photo obtained Dec. 8, 2021. US District Court for the Southe<\/p>\n

When Reiter inquired about Epstein, he claimed to have been told that the financier \u201csupports law enforcement and is an important guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Palm Beach Police Department began receiving reports about Epstein \u201c[i]n the early 2000\u2019s, maybe 2003,\u201d according to the summary. Eventually, Reiter said, his officers put together a sprawling case against Epstein, including \u201csexual battery cases against the co-conspirators.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Reiter recalled that state prosecutors \u201csaid the victims were not credible and would show their MYSPACE pages and such. They would refute minute details in the probable cause affidavit \u2026 This case died at the state level.\u201d<\/p>\n

The summary of the FBI interview of Reiter was included in millions of files that have been released by the Justice Department in connection with the case of Epstein, who pleaded guilty to Florida charges of soliciting a minor for sex in 2008 under a controversial non-prosecution agreement that saw him serve 13 months in prison, much of that time on work release.<\/p>\n

Epstein was arrested by the FBI in July 2019 and charged with sex trafficking, but was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell the following month while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n

The document emerged hours after Maxwell invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a closed-door virtual deposition before the House Oversight Committee. <\/p>\n

The 64-year-old UK-born socialite declined to answer questions about her friendship with Epstein or her role in the trafficking of young women and girls. <\/p>\n

An attorney for Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence at a medium-security Texas facility, said following the testimony that his client would speak freely if she is granted clemency by Trump.<\/p>\n

The White House has said no such action is under consideration, with Trump telling reporters in July that he would \u201ctake a look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t consider it or not consider it. I don\u2019t know anything about it,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cI will speak to the DOJ.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump personally called the police chief of Palm Beach, Fla., in 2006 to thank him for investigating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,24224,7115,6769,10123,9,11,10,19031,87,1069,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-129610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-fbi-investigations","10":"tag-ghislaine-maxwell","11":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","12":"tag-mar-a-lago","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-palm-beach","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-trump","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}