A 2019 FBI report revealed that President Donald Trump allegedly called a Palm Beach, Florida, police chief in 2006 to express gratitude for “stopping” Jeffrey Epstein, after the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender’s crimes became public. Trump made the comments long before his foray into politics and presidential run. He allegedly told the police chief that everyone knew Epstein “has been doing this.”

“Mar-A-Lago is a mixture of everyone,” read the report. “Donald Trump told [redacted] that he threw Epstein out of his club. Trump called the PBPD and told him ‘thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this.”