FBI documents reveal Trump thanked Palm Beach, Florida, police over Epstein probe

President Donald Trump reportedly referred to as Palm Seashore, Florida, police within the mid-2000s to thank them for investigating Jeffrey Epstein, whereas on the identical time warning them to maintain their concentrate on the “evil” Ghislaine Maxwell, in response to an FBI doc summarizing an interview with the native division’s former chief.

“TRUMP referred to as the PBPD (Palm Seashore Police Division) to inform him ‘thank God you are stopping him, everybody is aware of he is doing this,’” reads an FBI doc reviewed by Fox Information Digital that recounts a 2019 interview with former Palm Seashore, Florida, Police Chief Michael Reiter.

Nevertheless, when requested for remark, a Justice Division official claimed Tuesday that the workplace was “not conscious of any supporting proof that the president had contacted regulation enforcement 20 years in the past.”

Reiter served as Palm Seashore police chief from 2001 to 2009. Reiter’s title was taken from the FBI doc launched by the Division of Justice (DOJ), however confirmed to regulation enforcement. Miami Herald that he was interviewed by the FBI in 2019 and that Trump referred to as the police about Epstein in July 2006, the outlet stated.

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President Donald Trump reportedly referred to as the Palm Seashore, Florida, police in 2006 to thank them for investigating Jeffrey Epstein. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Photos)

Fox Information Digital reached out Tuesday morning to Reiter and a safety and disaster administration firm he operates referred to as Michael Reiter and Associates. Reiter declined to touch upon the matter.

The FBI doc was amongst thousands and thousands of recordsdata, images and emails launched by the DOJ after Trump signed the Epstein Information Transparency Act in late 2025. The DOJ launched its newest set of recordsdata on January 30.

Florida police started investigating Epstein in 2005 after receiving a name {that a} 14-year-old lady had allegedly been abused by the financier, the Miami Herald reported. The decision led police to uncover different comparable allegations of sexual abuse and contain Reiter within the investigation, the outlet wrote Monday.

The FBI doc summarizing Reiter’s reported interview with federal officers alleges that Trump allegedly referred to as Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime affiliate, “evil” and warned that police ought to “concentrate on her.”

“TRUMP informed him that folks in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting,” the FBI doc concerning the interview with the previous police chief continued. “TRUMP stated MAXWELL was EPSTEIN’s agent, ‘she is evil and to concentrate on her’”

“TRUMP informed (redacted) that he was close to EPSTEIN as soon as when youngsters had been current and TRUMP ‘bought out of there’. TRUMP was one of many very first individuals to name when individuals came upon they had been investigating EPSTEIN.”

Fox Information Digital additionally reached out to the White Home Tuesday morning for touch upon the alleged cellphone name and the FBI doc.

The Justice Division launched a trove of Epstein paperwork on December 19, 2025, following President Donald Trump’s signing of the Epstein Information Transparency Act in November 2025. (Patrick McMullan by way of Getty Photos)

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Trump has lengthy maintained that whereas he as soon as engaged with Epstein, he “kicked him out of his Mar-a-Lago resort” within the 2000s as particulars of his internet of intercourse trafficking and pedophilia circulated.

Reiter’s interview with the FBI additionally supported Trump’s long-standing feedback that he ended all ties with Epstein within the early 2000s.

“Mar-A-Lago is a mixture of everybody,” the FBI doc reads. “DONALD TRUMP informed (redacted) he kicked EPSTEIN out of his membership.”

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was a well-connected financier with an extended Rolodex of billionaires and celebrities who floated out and in of his orbit over time. (Rick Friedman Pictures/Corbis by way of Getty Photos)

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Epstein was a well-connected financier with an extended Rolodex of billionaires and celebrities who floated out and in of his orbit over time. He was convicted in 2008 of intercourse trafficking minors and served simply over a 12 months in jail, which additionally included a controversial work launch association beneath a plea settlement.

He was arrested once more in 2019 on intercourse trafficking expenses earlier than being discovered useless by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell.

Jeffrey Epstein was seen in a handful of non-public photos within the second dataset launched by the Justice Division on December 19, 2025, together with on boats and close to helicopters. (Ministry of Justice)

In response to the Herald, Reiter’s interview with the FBI came about simply two months after Epstein’s dying.

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Trump signed laws in November 2025 requiring the Justice Division to launch recordsdata associated to the late convicted intercourse offender, with the DOJ releasing tranches of the paperwork since December 2025.