During a press briefing, reporters questioned White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt about a document referencing a 2006 phone call allegedly involving Donald Trump during the Epstein investigation. The claim, drawn from a 2019 FBI summary, cites former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, who reportedly described Trump reacting to the Epstein probe by saying, “Thank goodness you’re stopping him,” and referring to Ghislaine Maxwell as “evil.” Rather than directly confirming or denying whether the call occurred, Leavitt deflected the question. She instead repeated Trump’s long-standing defense, that he removed Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after learning of his behavior, avoiding any verification of the specific 2006 call referenced in the document. WATCH 

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer questions from House lawmakers during a scheduled deposition at a federal prison facility in Texas, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights and declining to provide testimony in a congressional investigation into Epstein’s trafficking network. Behind closed doors, Maxwell’s legal team delivered a message to lawmakers: she would be willing to testify “fully and honestly”, but only if President Donald Trump were to grant her clemency or commute her prison sentence. Her attorney claimed that Maxwell could confirm that neither Trump nor former President Bill Clinton committed criminal wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, framing her testimony as contingent on presidential intervention. WATCH