Newly unsealed Department of Justice records blow a crater through years of lazy insinuation about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
According to the documents, Trump was one of the first people to alert police about Epstein all the way back in July 2006 — long before Epstein became a convenient political cudgel for the Left. The records include a previously unreleased 2019 FBI interview summary with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, detailing Trump’s early cooperation with authorities once Epstein’s criminal sex investigation became public.
Far from protecting Epstein, Trump reportedly called Reiter to express relief that law enforcement was finally taking action. He told investigators that people around him in New York considered Epstein’s behavior “disgusting” and urged them to focus on Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he bluntly described as “evil.”
That detail matters — because it aligns perfectly with what Trump has said for years, despite the media’s refusal to acknowledge it.
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The FBI summary also notes that Trump told investigators he had kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, a claim he has consistently maintained and which critics long dismissed without evidence. Now the documentation backs him up.
The Miami Herald first reported the newly unsealed material, and its implications are unmistakable: while Democrats and the press spent years trying to smear Trump by association, the actual record shows he was warning police, cutting ties, and pointing investigators toward Epstein’s inner circle.
“Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump reportedly told the Palm Beach Police Department.
“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,’ the report continues.
The president also noted that he had witnessed Epstein in the presence of teenagers and was apparently not at all happy by what he saw and “got the hell out of there.”
BREAKING:
Unsealed court docs reviewed by the Miami Herald show DONALD TRUMP called Palm Beach police about Jeffrey Epstein in 2006
Trump described Ghislaine Maxwell as “Epstein’s operative “she is evil and to focus on her” pic.twitter.com/S01tfEn9XF
— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) February 10, 2026
This latest document release is narrative-busting, plain and simple. For years, Democrats have been desperate to land a blow on Donald Trump by forcing a guilt-by-association story through the Epstein files. They wanted proximity. They wanted complicity. What they got instead was proof that the narrative was built on sand.
The reality is unavoidable. Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, was convicted in 2008 of procuring a minor for prostitution and later faced federal sex-trafficking charges until his death in 2019, which authorities ruled a suicide in a Manhattan jail cell. His longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, is now serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in those crimes.
The radical Democrats, Thomas Massie, and MTG have spent the last year trying to link President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.
According to the FBI at the time he was the hero of this story "Thank goodness you're stopping him"
This is the biggest political backfire in history! pic.twitter.com/h9DzuHSFdW
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) February 10, 2026
Predictably, the media is already hard at work trying to salvage the wreckage. Instead of reporting the obvious takeaway — that Donald Trump warned authorities about Jeffrey Epstein early on — outlets are twisting themselves into knots to frame the revelation as somehow “contradicting the president’s previous claims.” Per the Herald:
That stands in sharp contrast to what Trump told reporters in July 2019 when he was asked if he had any knowledge that Epstein had molested girls.
“No, I had no idea. I had no idea,” Trump said at the time.
It’s a misleading and dishonest spin — which, at this point, is exactly what people expect from the media.
What’s being deliberately ignored is context. Trump’s earlier comments came in direct response to reporters asking whether he had specific knowledge that Jeffrey Epstein had molested underage girls. Trump was denying awareness of the criminal allegations that exploded into public view around Epstein’s 2019 arrest, not claiming he had never heard rumors or concerns about Epstein’s behavior years earlier.
Nowhere in the FBI interview does it suggest that Donald Trump had specific knowledge of the criminal molestation, sexual abuse, or sex-trafficking details that later emerged through the full Epstein investigation or the 2008 plea deal. Not once. What it shows instead is Trump relaying what he’d heard from others — that Jeffrey Epstein’s behavior was “disgusting” — and explaining that it so disturbed him he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago.
That distinction completely detonates the media’s spin.
Meanwhile, during a closed-door virtual deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, Maxwell repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer questions. Her lawyer declared that she would “speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump.”
“Both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing,” the lawyer said. “Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to hear that explanation.”
