"Donald Trump has repeatedly said that he wasn't aware of his friend Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes until he was charged in Florida in 2006. While Epstein was in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019, reporters asked the president if he ever had any suspicions that his friend was molesting young women. "No, I had no idea," Trump answered. "I had no idea. I haven't spoken to him in many, many years.""
"In an October 2019 interview, former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter told the FBI that Trump called him in 2006, shortly after it was publicly reported that the department was investigating allegations that Epstein abused teenage girls. "Thank goodness you're stopping him, everyone has known he's been doing this," Trump told Reiter, according to the FBI record of the 2019 interview, which was included in the batch of Epstein files released on January 30."
Donald Trump publicly denied any awareness of Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes, saying in 2019 that he had no idea and had not spoken to Epstein for years. Former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter told the FBI in a 2019 interview that Trump phoned him in July 2006 and said Epstein's abuse of girls and young women was well known in their New York and Palm Beach social circle. Reiter said Trump urged investigators to focus on Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, called her evil, and said he left Epstein's presence when teenagers were present. Reiter later confirmed his FBI interview and contact with Trump.
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