Bombshell New Docs Show Trump Called Police About Epstein in 2006: ‘Thank Goodness You’re Stopping Him’

 

Newly unsealed Justice Department records shed light on something that’s been largely ignored for years: back in July 2006, Donald Trump was among the first people to alert law enforcement about Jeffrey Epstein.

According to the documents, which include a previously undisclosed FBI interview from 2019 with former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter, Trump reached out shortly after Epstein’s sex-crime investigation became public. At the time, Trump was a private businessman, not a politician, and he reportedly expressed relief that authorities were finally taking action.

Reiter told the FBI that Trump said people in New York had long viewed Epstein’s behavior as “disgusting.” Trump also urged investigators to pay close attention to Ghislaine Maxwell, calling her Epstein’s operative and describing her as “evil.” This account was first reported by the Miami Herald.

The interview summary also backs up something Trump has said consistently for years: that he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. According to Reiter, Trump told police he had “thrown Epstein out” of the club after witnessing behavior involving young girls that deeply disturbed him. At one point, Trump reportedly told local police, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him. Everyone has known he’s been doing this.”

This document release seriously undercuts the storyline Democrats and much of the media have tried to push—that Trump was somehow closely tied to Epstein or complicit in his crimes. Instead, it shows Trump distancing himself early and even encouraging authorities to act.

Epstein, a wealthy financier, was convicted in 2008 of procuring a minor for prostitution and later faced federal sex trafficking charges before his death in a Manhattan jail in 2019, which authorities ruled a suicide. Maxwell is now serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in Epstein’s criminal operation.

Predictably, much of the media coverage hasn’t focused on the fact that Trump warned police. Instead, outlets are trying to claim the documents “contradict” Trump’s past statements. They point to comments Trump made in July 2019, when reporters asked whether he knew Epstein had molested underage girls. Trump responded, “No, I had no idea.”

That framing is misleading. Trump was specifically denying knowledge of Epstein’s criminal acts molestation and sex trafficking not saying he had never found Epstein’s behavior disturbing. The FBI interview doesn’t suggest Trump had inside knowledge of the crimes that later became public, including details from Epstein’s plea deal or the full scope of the trafficking operation. It shows Trump reacting to rumors, personal observations, and secondhand accounts, enough to ban Epstein from his property and alert law enforcement.

In elite Palm Beach and New York social circles, plenty of people noticed Epstein’s inappropriate behavior around young women long before prosecutors had hard evidence of felony crimes. Noticing something is wrong is not the same as knowing the details of a criminal enterprise.

Meanwhile, Maxwell recently invoked her Fifth Amendment rights during a closed-door House Oversight Committee deposition. Her attorney said she would be willing to testify fully if granted clemency by President Trump. The lawyer also stated that both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of wrongdoing and that Maxwell alone could explain why.

Taken together, these newly released records don’t damage Trump’s credibility they reinforce what he has said all along. While others looked the other way, he cut ties, sounded the alarm, and wanted authorities to take action. The media may not like that narrative, but the documents speak for themselves.