One of the DOJ’s Epstein files seems to support Donald Trump’s contention that he broke completely with Jeffrey Epstein, probably in 2004, but no later than 2006. It indicates that Trump congratulated police in July 2006 for going after Epstein, along with his deep suspicion of Ghislaine Maxwell. The FBI document is their record of an October 2019 interview with former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter. It reads:
DONALD TRUMP told XX that he threw EPSTEIN out of his [Mar-a-Lago] club. TRUMP called the PBPD [Palm Beach Police Department] to tell him “thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this.” 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.” TRUMP told XX that he was around EPSTEIN once when teenagers were present and TRUMP “got the hell out of there.” TRUMP was one of the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating EPSTEIN.
