Newly unsealed Department of Justice records show that in July 2006, long before he entered politics, Donald Trump personally reached out to law enforcement to sound the alarm about sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
According to RedState, the documents include a previously undisclosed 2019 FBI interview summary with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, who recounted that Trump contacted his department shortly after news broke that Epstein was under criminal investigation. The President reportedly expressed relief that authorities were finally taking action, telling Reiter that associates in New York had long described Epsteins conduct as disgusting and urging investigators to concentrate on Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he labeled evil.
The Miami Herald first reported on the existence of the interview summary, which directly undercuts years of Democratic talking points attempting to cast Trump as a close Epstein ally. The first reference to Trump in the FBI document notes that he told investigators he had thrown Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, a claim he has repeated consistently over the years and which now appears corroborated by federal records.
Thank goodness you're stopping him, everyone has known he's been doing this, Trump reportedly told the Palm Beach Police Department as the Epstein probe gathered steam. The FBI summary further records that TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting. TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN's operative, she is evil and to focus on her, underscoring that Trump viewed Maxwell as central to Epsteins operation rather than as a mere social acquaintance.
Trump also told investigators he had personally seen Epstein in the company of teenagers and was so disturbed by the scene that he got the hell out of there. That account aligns with the broader picture emerging from the unsealed files, which depict Trump not as a participant in Epsteins crimes, but as one of the earliest high-profile figures to distance himself and alert authorities.
The newly revealed material is, as many conservatives have noted, narrative-shattering. For years, Democrats and their media allies, desperate to weaponize the Epstein scandal against Trump, have tried to portray the two men as inseparable social partners, despite mounting evidence that Trump cut ties with Epstein long before most others did.
Epstein, a politically connected financier, was convicted in 2008 of procuring for prostitution a girl under 18 and was later charged with sex trafficking before dying in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, officially ruled a suicide. Maxwell is now serving a 20-year federal sentence for her role in facilitating the late billionaire pedophiles crimes, confirming the centrality of her role that Trump had flagged to police more than a decade earlier.
The radical left, joined by figures like Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene in a rare and awkward alignment, spent the past year trying to tether Trump to Epstein in the public mind. Yet, as one viral post noted, According to the FBI at the time he was the hero of this story 'Thank goodness you're stopping him' This is the biggest political backfire in history!a characterization that, while hyperbolic, captures the scale of the political miscalculation.
Predictably, much of the corporate press has chosen to spin the latest revelation not as evidence that Trump tried to warn authorities, but as supposed proof that this contradicts the president's previous claims. From the Miami Herald: That stands in sharp contrast to what Trump told reporters in July 2019 when he was asked if he had any knowledge that Epstein had molested girls.
This framing is, at best, tendentious and, at worst, deliberately misleading. Trumps 2019 remarks came in direct response to a narrow question about whether he had specific knowledge that Epstein had molested girls, and he was clearly denying awareness of the detailed criminal allegationsmolestation and sex traffickingthat exploded into public view around Epsteins 2019 arrest.
Nothing in the FBI interview summary suggests Trump possessed concrete, prosecutable knowledge of the underlying criminal acts, the particulars of the abuse, or the trafficking network that later emerged in court filings and Epsteins 2008 plea deal. Instead, the document portrays Trump as someone who had heard from others about Epsteins disgusting behavior, was disturbed by what he personally observed, and responded by ejecting Epstein from his club and urging police to focus on Maxwell.
In that respect, Trumps experience mirrors that of many in Palm Beachs elite social circles, who noticed Epsteins pattern of questionable behavior with very young women without having direct evidence of felony-level crimes. The medias attempt to twist this into a gotcha moment against Trump looks less like journalism and more like partisan damage control now that the official record undermines their preferred narrative.
Meanwhile, Maxwell herself has continued to play a coy legal game from behind bars. She repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a closed-door virtual deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, refusing to answer substantive questions about her role or the powerful men who orbited Epsteins world.
Her attorney, however, dangled a political carrot, declaring that Maxwell would speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump. The lawyer went even further, insisting, Both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing, and adding, Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to hear that explanation, a statement that raises as many questions as it answers about who knew whatand wheninside Epsteins circle of influence.
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