President Donald Trump reportedly told a police chief in 2006 that “everyone has known he’s been doing this” about Jeffrey Epstein‘s criminal activities. This directly contradicts his public statements years later. The detail comes from an October 2019 FBI interview with Michael Reiter, the former Palm Beach police chief who led the initial Epstein investigation.
According to the Miami Herald, Trump called Reiter in July 2006 as Epstein’s sex crime charges became public. Reiter said Trump told him Epstein’s activities with young women were widely known in New York and Palm Beach. Trump specifically told Reiter, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this.”
