Former President Donald Trump allegedly told a Palm Beach, Florida, police chief in the mid-2000s that he was glad the chief was "stopping" Jeffrey Epstein, according to an FBI account of an interview. The ex-police chief, who investigated Epstein, reported the conversation to the FBI in 2019, as reported by ABC News. Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
The Miami Herald was the first to report on the document, which detailed the ex-police chief's account. Trump reportedly said, "Everyone has known he's been doing this," according to the FBI interview. Trump has stated he cut off contact with Epstein over 20 years ago, and claimed he removed Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.
In other news, a Florida teenager's stepbrother appeared in federal court in Miami on Friday in connection to the teenager's death aboard a Carnival cruise ship, as reported by Fox News. Anna Kepner, 18, was found dead on the Carnival Horizon in November. Her 16-year-old stepbrother was seen leaving juvenile court before entering adult federal court.
Also, hundreds gathered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Friday to honor the late president on what would have been his 115th birthday, according to Fox News. Among those in attendance was Reagan's granddaughter, Ashley Reagan, who said the annual commemoration helps maintain the legacy her father Michael spent much of his life preserving. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy also spoke at the event.
Meanwhile, the United States is actively weighing the deployment of more nuclear weapons and is likely to conduct a nuclear test, according to The New York Times. These steps would reverse nearly 40 years of stricter nuclear control by the United States. President Trump would be the first president since Ronald Reagan to increase the number of nuclear weapons again, if he chose to do so. The last time the United States conducted a nuclear test was 1992.
In a separate ruling, a federal judge struck down California's law prohibiting federal law enforcement agents from wearing face masks but upheld a companion measure requiring them to display identification, as reported by The New York Times. Judge Christina A. Snyder of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles issued a preliminary injunction blocking the mask law, ruling it unconstitutional because it exempted state law enforcement officers, making it discriminatory.
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