The White House says the media’s long-running fantasy about President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein just took a serious hit.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that an alleged 2006 phone call between Trump and then–Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter “cracks” the establishment narrative about the president’s supposed relationship with Epstein.
Her comments came after the Department of Justice released a document from a 2019 FBI interview with Reiter. According to that document, Reiter said Trump told him, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” and described Ghislaine Maxwell as “evil,” urging investigators to focus on her.
The document also states that Trump told Reiter he had kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago and that Trump “was one of the very first people to call” once Epstein was under investigation. Reiter previously told the Miami Herald the call happened in July 2006.
Leavitt said she cannot confirm whether the call actually occurred, but noted that if it did, it aligns perfectly with what Trump has said for years.
“Look, it was a phone call that may or may not have happened in 2006. I don’t know the answer to that question,” Leavitt said. “What I’m telling you is that what President Trump has always said is that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club because Jeffrey Epstein was a creep.”
“And that remains true, and this call, if it did happen, corroborates exactly what President Trump has said from the beginning,” she added.
Leavitt suggested the newly released FBI document should cause some soul-searching among reporters who have spent years pushing a different story.
“And I’m sure many of you, when you read that alleged FBI report, probably thought to yourself, ‘Wow, this really cracks our narrative that we’ve been trying to push about this president for many years,’” she said. “So we’re moving on from that.”
The document paints a picture of Trump not as an accomplice, but as someone who warned law enforcement, condemned Epstein’s behavior, and cut him off socially — an inconvenient set of facts for those invested in tying the president to the disgraced financier.
Whether the call happened exactly as described or not, the story reinforces Trump’s long-standing claim: Epstein was banned from Mar-a-Lago and treated as what he was — a creep. And with each new document that comes out, the media’s favorite storyline looks a little shakier.
For a narrative that was supposed to be bulletproof, it’s developing more cracks by the day — and sunlight has a funny way of doing that.
