02/10/2026
Newly unsealed Epstein-related court documents reviewed by the Miami Herald include details from a 2019 FBI interview reportedly of former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter, in which he describes a 2006 phone call where President Donald Trump said of Jeffrey Epstein, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” even though the president has repeatedly said he didn’t know about Epstein’s alleged crimes at the time they were happening.
Trump reportedly told Reiter that Maxwell was Epstein’s “operative” and said “she is evil” and that authorities should “focus on her.”
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