No one alive today can be said to have truly blown open the Jeffrey Epstein shitsow more than the Miami Herald’s Julie K Brown, whose 2019 pieces led to Alex Acosta’s downfall, Jeff’s second federal indictment, and then his suicide-ish death in the Manhattan federal lockup. As such, her years of work and encyclopedic knowledge of all the players involved equipped her with the knowledge to effectively search the context-free dumps of millions of files in the Justice Department’s possession, revealing one in particular that, in retrospect, Todd Blanche just might’ve wanted to hang on to:

The FBI’s October 2019 interview with retired Palm Beach, Florida Police Department Chief Michael Reiter, who told agents that in 2006 – right as it became public that law enforcement were starting to build their first case against Dirty Jeff – Trump called him to say “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this.” Which sort of implodes the fat bastard’s 2019 assertions that he “had no idea. I had no idea” that his ex-bestie was trafficking underage girls.

It gets even more consciousness of guilt-y. Reiter told agents that Trump had told him that “he was around Epstein once when teenagers were present and Trump ‘got the hell out of there.'” It’s not clear from the FBI’s interview brief (not a transcript) the level of solicitation that preceded that awfully specific claim, but keep in mind that Trump called Reiter to talk to him about Epstein. This wasn’t them chatting idly on the golf course or whatever, but an otherwise unprompted phone call.

Still it gets even more damning: Of Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender now kept in protective bubble wrap at Club Fed for having told Blanche that Trump never did anything inappropriate around her (she also said the same thing about Jeff), Reiter told agents that Donald said Ghislaine was Jeff’s “operative,” and “she is evil and to focus on her.” Good call, fatass.