{"id":365702,"date":"2026-02-10T18:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365702"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:02:25","slug":"unsealed-epstein-files-detail-trumps-2006-call-to-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365702","title":{"rendered":"Unsealed Epstein Files Detail Trump&#8217;s 2006 Call to Police Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Newly released files from a 2019 FBI interview show Trump urging Chief Michael Reiter to target Maxwell as Epstein&#8217;s &#8216;evil&#8217; operative, saying he had banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after spotting red flags and was among the first to tip off investigators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The call came in July 2006, after the Palm Beach sex crimes investigation leaked publicly, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=7862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Trump<\/a> recounting fleeing a scene with teenagers present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These details emerged from over 3 million pages unsealed under the 2025 Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed by Trump himself, amid the financier&#8217;s probes that ended in his 2019 suicide and Maxwell&#8217;s 20-year sentence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporters see it as early whistleblowing; critics note the timing after news broke, with no recordings to confirm beyond Reiter&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The call came in July 2006, after the Palm Beach sex crimes investigation leaked publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":365703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7862],"tags":[18783,17600],"class_list":["post-365702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-donald-trump","tag-epstein-files","tag-jeffrey-epstein"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365704,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365702\/revisions\/365704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/365703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}