An FBI report detailing a phone call by Donald Trump to the Palm Beach Police chief in 2006 implicating his child sex trafficking friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has muddled the president’s varying explanations of when and why he broke off contact with them.

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt falsely claimed that the document, released by the Justice Department in response to a new law requiring disclosure of the federal government’s investigations of the now-dead financier, vindicates Trump.

“Look, it was a phone call that may or may not have happened in 2006…. What I’m telling you is that what President Trump has always said is that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club because Jeffrey Epstein was a creep and that remains true,” she said during a press briefing.

“And this call, if it did happen, corroborates exactly what President Trump has said from the beginning.”

In fact, the FBI report first discovered among the millions of released documents by The Miami Herald, adds yet another conflicting data point to Trump’s various explanations through the years of why he ended his long history of socialising with Epstein.

“Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump told then-Palm........

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