A shocking new revelation in the Epstein files shows that Donald Trump called the police on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2006 and said these people are evil. Is this a true story or not? And why is the FBI redacting so much information about innocent people in order to protect themselves?
00:04:42.000They report a former Palm Beach, Florida police chief who investigated Jeffrey Epstein in the mid 2000s told the FBI he had received a call from Donald Trump at the time to say, quote, thank goodness you're stopping him.
00:04:54.000Everyone has known he's been doing this, according to an FBI account of an interview with an ex police chief in 2019.
00:05:01.000The Miami Herald was the first to report the document.
00:05:04.000President Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein's crimes and has said that he cut off contact with his former friend more than 20 years ago.
00:05:11.000Trump has claimed that he booted Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after discovering that he was poaching employees from the club spa.
00:05:21.000The issue. The police chief's name, Michael Reiter, is redacted from the document on the Department of Justice website.
00:05:27.000But the information in the FBI statement tracks with previously public information about Reiter's role in the investigation that began in 2005.
00:05:34.000Reiter's detectives were investigating Epstein for allegedly recruiting girls as young as 14 to provide massages that turned yikes.
00:05:42.000The information about Trump's alleged call makes up just a small part of the four page FBI report summarizing Reiter's testimony.
00:05:50.000In October of 2019, 19, two months after Epstein's death, Donald Trump told Reiter that he threw Epstein out of his club.
00:05:57.000Trump called the Palm Beach Department to tell him, thank goodness you're stopping him.
00:06:01.000Everyone has known he's been doing this.
00:06:04.000The alleged call came from Trump in July of 2006, around the time the details of the police investigation became public, according to a source familiar with the timing.
00:06:12.000Trump told him people in New York knew Epstein was disgusting.
00:06:16.000Trump said Maxwell was Epstein's operative.
00:06:21.000Trump told Reiter that he was around Epstein once when teenagers were present and Trump got the hell out of there.
00:06:27.000Trump was one of the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating Epstein.
00:06:32.000The account of Trump's alleged call to Reiter, as summarized in the FBI document, has not previously been reported.
00:06:38.000After repeatedly sparring behind the scenes of local prosecutors, Reiter went public in 06, expressing his displeasure with the local prosecutor's decision to take the case to a grand jury instead of charging Epstein directly.
00:06:48.000Reiter apologized to victims for the way the case had been handled by the prosecutor and then coordinated with federal authorities to launch another investigation of Epstein.
00:06:56.000He did not respond to a to a request for comment.
00:07:16.000And people who are like him, who seek power, do things that are, I don't know.
00:07:23.000I had a conversation with some guys recently where they said all these billionaires go nuts.
00:07:28.000And I said, no, they're billionaires because they're nuts.
00:07:30.000Something different in these people drives them to to these positions, be it malicious or perhaps benevolent.
00:07:39.000But I look at Donald Trump and I see him as a man and I see him as a fairly liberal guy who went Republican because liberals were kind of nuts.
00:07:48.000He's a fairly moderate, but he's where Democrats used to be.
00:07:52.000And that means you're going to find a bunch of bad stuff about him talking about girls and grabbing their hoo-hoos and all that stuff.
00:07:57.000But I do not believe for a second these accusations they've made about him, like going to the island and doing these things.
00:08:05.000I don't I don't I just don't believe it.
00:08:18.000And I'm going to give you my thoughts.
00:08:19.000And I hope the liberals out there listen to what I have to say.
00:08:23.000I'll start with the liable for sexual assault claim against Eugene Carroll.
00:08:28.000The claim was made some 30 years later for a law was passed, allowing old claims to be brought back up, reignite, but basically bypassing statute of limitations.
00:08:36.000She made the claim that Donald Trump exited or I'm sorry, I should say instead of going into his own hotel, went to the Bergdorf Goodman, where they went to second floor and they were changing rooms where no one noticed the most famous man in New York and this woman.
00:08:50.000They somehow gained access to a locked room where they engaged in adult activities for which she was not very happy about.
00:08:57.000Although part of the story does seem to be that she wanted to go with Trump, she didn't like how far it went.
00:09:03.000Now, the problem with this story is that she claimed to be wearing a dress that hadn't been released at the time.
00:09:07.000She didn't know how she gained access to a room or how no one noticed that Trump was there.
00:09:11.000It was seemingly not crowded, according to her story, despite being the Bergdorf Goodman and Donald Trump's hotel was across the street.
00:09:52.000Thirty four counts of falsifying business records and furtherance of another crime for the first time in history without a unanimous decision on what crime was trying to be committed.
00:10:25.000OK, so I know we got a lot more to get into, but I got to say this because because I know these lives are going to be like Tim's blindly defending Trump.
00:10:31.000I have stood with Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey on the release of these files from day one, interviewed them, challenged Ro Khanna on calling for the unredacted release.
00:10:40.000Then he modified, agreed with me and I agreed with him.
00:10:44.000He said they would remedy this, the bill, so that they would not.
00:10:48.000And I am proud to say that my challenging on that was a factor in getting this done.
00:11:24.000And I respect that he made that change.
00:11:27.000I want all of this released and unredacted.
00:11:30.000But when it comes to Donald Trump falsifying business records, despite the fact Donald Trump never gave the order or told the staffer to do it.
00:13:42.000And I surmised, could it be that Donald Trump's concern with the Epstein files is that he will be outed as actually working with the feds against many powerful people who might want to get revenge?
00:14:47.000But Occam's razor would suggest the reality is just that Trump did this.
00:14:51.000We knew the story of him kicking out Epstein.
00:14:53.000We've got a statement now that goes back seven years, apparently, where a police chief was imploring them to take Epstein down and said Trump called us and talked to us about this.
00:15:04.000I think there's a possibility that Trump did a little bit more than that and probably just a little bit.
00:15:09.000The end result of which Epstein got a sweetheart deal.
00:15:12.000He was under the Trump administration.
00:15:14.000Epstein got arrested in the first place.
00:15:17.000Now, there's questions as to why Trump didn't want this released.
00:15:39.000If Trump goes to Bill Gates and says, listen, this email from Epstein says that you got a, you know, infection from some ladies of the night and accidentally gave it to your wife.
00:23:56.000And it's funny because with like the bad bunny halftime show stuff, I'm fairly ambivalent and critical of the whole thing.
00:24:03.000But it is clear to me that the only reason people are saying the bad bunny show is good is because it's a narrative machine they're trying to push.
00:24:12.000It's PR marketing. Agree with us. Shut your mouth.
00:24:15.000OK, I'm not going to sit here and say that it was the worst show ever done.
00:24:19.000The production was pretty good. It was hard for people to connect with.
00:24:22.000My point is this not to rehash all the halftime stuff, but that there are liberals running articles saying, you know, Tim Pool defends MAGA, blah, blah, blah.
00:24:31.000And I'm like, my critique of bad bunny has nothing to do with whether MAGA is good or bad.
00:24:36.000But they live in this binary world. No, Trump does some things that are good and he's kind of a kind of guy.
00:24:43.000You know what I mean? I think his family is wonderful, but I'm not going to hide my opinions or lie.
00:24:48.000And what I respect about Trump and his supporters largely is that I can disagree with them.
00:24:53.000I can criticize Donald Trump and they'll argue back, whereas the left just lies and pretends like I'm some MAGA hat wearing diehard Trump guy who's going to lie 24 seven.
00:25:03.000There's a reality and the reality is this. There are a lot of Epstein files that are wrongly redacted.
00:25:12.000And I think the Trump DOJ needs to stop playing games. I don't care who it brings down.
00:25:19.000If they deserve to be brought down, so be it. The BBC reports.
00:25:25.000U.S. lawmakers say files related to Epstein were improperly redacted.
00:25:29.000Members of Congress on Monday were allowed to begin a review of the unredacted versions of the approximately three million pages.
00:25:34.000The core issue is that they're not complying with my law because these were scrubbed back in March by Donald Trump's FBI.
00:25:40.000Roe kind of told MS now at least one document has been unredacted since the lawmakers complaint with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying an ex the DOJ is committed to transparency.
00:25:51.000The files redactions came under scrutiny last week after lawmakers for Epstein's victims said the latest tranche of files included email addresses and nude photos in which the names and faces of potential victims could be identified.
00:26:02.000Survivors issued a statement calling the disclosure outrageous and said they should not be named, scrutinized and re-traumatized.
00:26:10.000The DOJ said it had taken down all the flagged files and that mistakes were due to technical or human error.
00:26:17.000After viewing the unredacted documents, Massey and Kana, who co-sponsored the bill, told reporters they had a list of about 20 people in which every name was redacted except for Epstein's and his convicted trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell, associate.
00:26:30.000Six of the names could even belong to men who likely incriminated by their inclusion in these files.
00:26:36.000These names were inappropriately redacted.
00:26:39.000In response to their concerns, Blanche said his department just unredacted all non-victim names from the document.
00:28:01.000There's an easy answer and it's tough, but the easy answer is this may actually be evidence against someone and it could corroborate Jeffrey Epstein and his ilk's use of the word pizza to refer to abusing children.
00:28:15.000There's no other reason to redact the name.
00:30:28.000There are a lot of uncorroborated things in here that are damaging innocent people and did nothing wrong.
00:30:32.000So why not, from the get go, just say this, release these files and then explain, if you see a redaction of a name, we are working on prosecutions, investigations.