Newly unsealed Department of Justice documents reveal that in July 2006, then businessman Donald Trump was one of the first to call police to warn them about sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
The documents include a previously unreported 2019 FBI interview summary with former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter. Trump had contacted the department shortly after reports of Epstein's criminal sex investigation became public.
The future president contacted Reiter to express relief that authorities were finally acting, suggesting his associates in New York had described Epstein's behaviors as "disgusting," and advised investigators to focus on Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he described as "evil."
The Miami Herald first reported on the development.
The first mention of Trump in the FBI interview summary notes that he told investigators that he "threw Epstein out" of Mar-a-Lago, something he has maintained consistently over the years.
"Thank goodness you're stopping him, everyone has known he's been doing this," Trump reportedly told the Palm Beach Police Department.
“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,’ the report continues.
The president also noted that he had witnessed Epstein in the presence of teenagers and was apparently dismayed by what he saw and "got the hell out of there."
BREAKING:
— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) February 10, 2026
Unsealed court docs reviewed by the Miami Herald show DONALD TRUMP called Palm Beach police about Jeffrey Epstein in 2006
Trump described Ghislaine Maxwell as “Epstein’s operative “she is evil and to focus on her” pic.twitter.com/S01tfEn9XF
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This bombshell document release is narrative-busting stuff. Democrats, desperate to land a punch on President Trump with the Epstein files, have repeatedly attempted to tie the two together as close associates.
Epstein, the late financier, was convicted of procuring for prostitution a girl below the age of 18 in 2008 and was facing sex trafficking charges until he died, according to authorities, by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019. Maxwell is currently serving 20 years in prison for her involvement in the late billionaire pedophile’s crimes.
The radical Democrats, Thomas Massie, and MTG have spent the last year trying to link President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) February 10, 2026
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! pic.twitter.com/h9DzuHSFdW
The media, of course, is framing the latest revelation not as 'Trump tried to warn authorities' but rather, as '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.
“No, I had no idea. I had no idea,” Trump said at the time.
It's a misleading and dishonest spin, something one comes to expect from the media.
Trump's comment came in direct response to reporters asking if he had any knowledge that Epstein had molested girls. He was denying awareness of Epstein's crimes or the allegations of molestation/sex trafficking that surfaced prominently around Epstein's 2019 arrest.
Nowhere in this FBI interview does it indicate he had specific knowledge of the criminal molestation, sexual abuse, or trafficking details that later emerged in the full Epstein investigation or his 2008 plea deal. It's Trump saying he had heard from others about "disgusting" behavior and how he was so creeped out that he had to remove Epstein from his club.
Countless people in Palm Beach social circles noticed Epstein had a pattern of questionable behavior with young women, without having direct evidence or knowledge of the felony-level crimes. Good try, media.
Maxwell repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to testify before the House Oversight Committee during a closed-door virtual deposition on Monday. Her lawyer declared that she would “speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump.”
"Both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing," the lawyer said. "Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to hear that explanation."
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