Ex-police chief says Trump informed him ‘thank goodness you are stopping’ Epstein in 2000s

A former Palm Beach, Florida, police chief who investigated Jeffrey Epstein within the mid-2000s informed the FBI he had acquired a name from Donald Trump on the time to say "thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this," in response to an FBI account of an interview with the ex-police chief in 2019.

The Miami Herald was the primary to report on the doc.

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