A document released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Feb. 1 showed that President Donald Trump called the police on sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to alert them that he was sexually abusing underage girls.
Trump alerted the Palm Beach Police Department of Epstein’s actions and allegedly told then-Police Chief Michael Reiter, “thank goodness you’re stopping him everyone has known he’s been doing this,” according to the document citing Reiter’s 2019 interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Trump was one of the first people to call authorities when the department began investigation Epstein for sexual misconduct in 2006.
Trump also told police that “he was around Epstein” when teenagers were present and he “got the hell out of there,” according to the document. He told the police that they should also focus their attention on Ghislaine Maxwell, who he called “evil.”
Reiter revealed this information to the FBI in October 2019, two months after prison guards found Epstein dead in his cell, according to the memo.
Trump told reporters in July 2025 that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in the early 2000s because he “stole” spa staffers, while other reports suggested that Epstein was removed for making advances toward another member’s teenage daughter. A report from December confirmed that Trump cut ties with Epstein after an 18-year-old beautician reported that Epstein made sexual advances toward her.
Reiter further said that none of the victims reported having sexual contact with anyone other than Epstein, according to the document.
Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in August that Trump was always a perfect gentleman and that she never ever saw him commit any wrongdoing. The victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation have always denied that Trump acted inappropriately.
The DOJ released over 3 million documents related to Epstein on Feb. 1 to comply with The Epstein Files Transparency Act. The files revealed that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick remained in contact with Epstein as recently as 2018 and had met with him in person at least two times after first meeting him in the early 2000s. The files also showed thousands of texts and emails between Epstein and former White House strategist Steve Bannon from 2018 and 2019, where they discussed a variety of topics such as foreign policy, pop culture and European coalitions.
The files also showed a photograph of former Prince Andrew leaning over a woman on all fours.
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