When Richard Nixon was mired in the Watergate scandal, Howard Baker famously asked him.

“What did the president know? When did he know it?” tennessee senator Announce.

As it turned out, Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment and conviction.

Today, more than half a century later, the same question is asked again another president.

Trump allegedly thanked police for investigating Epstein in 2000s, warned Ghislaine Maxwell was ‘evil’: FBI documents

President Donald Trump appears to know much more about the Jeffrey Epstein case than he is letting on. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)

It’s important to say up front that the long-awaited Jeffrey Epstein documents do not provide any evidence of personal sexual misconduct by Donald Trump.

But he knew a lot more than he let on.

Thanks to netizens for their tireless reporting miami herald Julie Brown has been covering the story since Epstein’s sweetheart sentencing deal in 2008, and Trump knew exactly what happened between the reprehensible pedophile and the underage girl.

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The scoop is based in part on a 2019 FBI interview with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter.

Leiter said that in the summer of 2006, Trump called him and said that everyone in Palm Beach and New York knew about Epstein’s sexual activities with minors.

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“Thank God you stopped this and everyone knew he had been doing this,” Wright recalled Trump saying at the time, referring to an Epstein investigation the director launched three years ago.

What’s more, the chief said Trump told him “on one occasion he was with Epstein in the presence of teenagers and that he ‘got out of there.'”

Trump reportedly raised the alarm about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell nearly two decades ago. (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

During this time, a woman called authorities to report that her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been molested by EpsteinOther girls at the same high school were reportedly giving Epstein massages or were assaulted or raped.

Wright took the case to the state attorney, who declined to prosecute, and then to the FBI.

“He certainly knew about the girls because he begged Ghislaine to stop,” Epstein wrote in a 2019 email before he committed suicide in prison.

That same year, when reporters asked him if he knew about Epstein’s depraved pedophilia, the president said: “No, I don’t. I don’t know.”

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Ridiculous deal: Prosecutors gave Epstein federal immunity in exchange for Epstein pleading guilty to two counts of solicitation, one involving a minor. He served a full 13 months in prison.

Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who is working with Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, yesterday named six people whose documents had been inexplicably altered. This shields them from public disclosure.

“The Department of Justice hid six wealthy, powerful individuals for no apparent reason,” Khanna said.

Khanna and Massey were allowed to review the unredacted documents for two hours.

Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., were allowed to view the unredacted documents for two hours. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Khanna named these people in the House of Representatives, where he has immunity:

“Salvatore Nuala, Zurab Mekladze, Leonich Leonov, Nikolai Caputo, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Leslie Wexner, CEO of Dubai Ports World and a billionaire named by the FBI as a co-conspirator.

“Now my question is, why did Thomas Massey and I go Ministry of Justice Let the identities of these six people be made public? If we find the six men they hid in two hours, imagine how many people they covered up in those 3 million files. “

This is indeed a problem. Why aren’t they publicly exposed? How many more are there?

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Maxwell was subpoenaed by Republican James Comer’s Oversight Committee, citing her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and saying she would continue to do so unless Trump granted her clemency.

He hinted at it when Trump and Epstein were still friendly. In a 2002 interview with New York Magazine, Trump called him a “terrific guy… and it’s even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and a lot of them are young.”

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The Epstein documents have been politically toxic for Trump since the start of his second term. Now the plot is getting more complicated.