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Ex-police chief says Trump told him 'thank goodness you're stopping' Epstein in 2000s
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2:56Now PlayingA 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 "thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this," according to an FBI account of an interview with the ex-police chief in 2019.
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