President Donald Trump, in a call two decades ago to a Florida police chief, bashed his former friend Jeffrey Epstein and called Epstein’s procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, “evil,” the now-retired cop recounted to FBI agents in 2019, according to a document released by the Department of Justice.
Trump called the then-Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter “to tell him ‘thank goodness you’ [are] stopping [Epstein], everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Reiter told the FBI in October 2019, according to the FBI document, known as a 302.
Reiter’s name is redacted from the 302. But the document identifies the interview subject as the person who had been Palm Beach’s police chief at the time of the department’s investigation of Epstein, who was Reiter.
Reiter told the Miami Herald, which first reported the document, that Trump called him in 2006, after the police department’s probe of Epstein became publicly known.
The document came to light hours after Maxwell’s lawyer called on Trump to grant her executive clemency, so that she could speak “honestly” about what she knows. Maxwell, earlier Monday, refused to testify to a House committee.
