US EditionTrump bashed Epstein to Palm Beach police during first investigation, called Maxwell ‘evil,’ record shows
FBI files reveal Trump urged Palm Beach police in 2006 to focus on Epstein and Maxwell, contradicting his later public denials, according to former police chief's 2019 interview.
- Trump called the Palm Beach Police Chief during the first Epstein investigation to thank him for 'stopping' Epstein, saying 'everyone has known he's been doing this,' according to a newly released FBI document.
- Trump told the police chief that Maxwell was Epstein's 'operative' and 'evil,' and to 'focus on her.'
- Trump claimed he was around Epstein once when teenagers were present and 'got the hell out of there,' according to the FBI's summary of its interview with the police chief.
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The Seattle TimesFormer police chief said Trump told him ‘everyone’ knew of Epstein’s actions
WASHINGTON — After it became known that Jeffrey Epstein was under investigation in the 2000s, one of the first calls the Palm Beach police received was from Donald Trump, the local police chief at the time told the FBI more than a decade later.
Donald Trump claims that he knew nothing about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. An FBI document now suggests that this statement might be wrong.
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der Standard DEAn FBI interrogation report reveals a phone call from Trump to the police, but the statement raises new questions about what today's US president knew about Epstein's machinations.
"Thank God you're stopping him, everyone knows he's doing this": a former police chief describes a phone call with Donald Trump in an FBI protocol shortly after the investigation against Epstein started.
Washington.- In the 2000s, when Jeffrey Epstein was discovered to be under investigation, one of the first calls the Palm Beach police received was from Donald Trump, as the local police chief told the FBI at the time more than a decade later. Trump reportedly told Chief Michael Reiter: “Thank God they’re putting a stop to him, everyone knew he’s been doing this,” according to a document that relates his conversation and is part of the set of fi…
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