A newly released FBI document reveals that former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter told investigators in 2019 that Donald Trump called him in July 2006 to express support for the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The account, first reported by the Miami Herald, states Trump told Reiter "thank goodness you're stopping him, everyone has known he's been doing this" during the investigation that began in 2005.

Reiter, whose name is redacted in the DOJ document, led the initial law enforcement probe into Epstein's alleged recruitment of girls as young as 14 for sexual massages. The FBI report summarizing Reiter's October 2019 testimony includes Trump's alleged comments that he "threw Epstein out of his club" after discovering he was poaching employees from Mar-a-Lago's spa. Trump reportedly told Reiter that people in New York knew Epstein was "disgusting" and that Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein's "evil" operative.

The document represents the first public account of Trump's alleged call to Reiter during the investigation. Reiter later went public in 2006, criticizing local prosecutors' handling of the case and coordinating with federal authorities, which ultimately led to Epstein's non-prosecution agreement in 2008.