Lutnick calls his Epstein actions “inexplicable” yet doesn’t resign.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/howard-lutnick-commerce-epstein-00908865

Lutnick admits to having prolonged ties to Epstein in closed-door interview
The Commerce Secretary sat for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the panel’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

For reasons he said were “inexplicable,” Howard Lutnick acknowledged visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s island seven years after he claimed to have severed his relationship with the convicted sex offender, according to lawmakers present for the Commerce Secretary’s closed-door testimony Wednesday.
The acknowledgment, however, did not satisfy Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee participating in Wednesday’s interview with Lutnick as part of the panel’s ongoing investigation into Epstein’s crimes and the powerful people in his orbit.
He was evasive, nervous — he was dishonest,” Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) told reporters during a break in the hourslong proceedings. “He would not admit to lying, which he clearly did.”
In an interview, Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) further suggested that if her party retook the House majority, Democrats could call Lutnick back in for additional questioning in a public hearing — or, at the very least, testify under oath on video.
“They deserve to see the sweat on the secretary’s brow as he struggles to answer basic questions about his lies to the American people,” said Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.).

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Anonymous wrote:All the more reason the Dems need to take Congress in the midterms. These scumbags need to go.

Red team, blue team!

Same team.

We need the *right* democrats to win.

Lutnick testifies he can't recall why his family lunched on Epstein's island https://www.reuters.com/world/us/lutnick-testifies-he-cant-recall-why-his-family-lunched-epsteins-island-2026-05-06/

WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - U.S. ​Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told members of a congressional committee in private testimony on Wednesday that ‌he couldn't recall why he and his family had lunch on Jeffrey Epstein's private island, members said.
Lutnick, the former chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, had lunch with the convicted sex offender for two hours on the island in 2012, contradicting a past public statement ​about cutting ties with Epstein years earlier.

Anonymous wrote:All the more reason the Dems need to take Congress in the midterms. These scumbags need to go.

Red team, blue team!

Same team.

Anonymous wrote:All the more reason the Dems need to take Congress in the midterms. These scumbags need to go.

Yes, they need to go. But honestly, the Democrats were perfectly willing to forget about Epstein as well, until the MAGA camp made it into a whole thing during the campaign, and both sides realized they could exploit it to cudgel some bigwigs on the opposite side.

The truth is that very few politicians actually care for the victims. Most are there for scalps, and I have to say, a lot of the electorate as well. It's sad, but women and girls in 2026 don't have it that much better than women and girls in 1990.

As for DCUM: I remember a year ago many posters saying stuff like "eh, we'll never know what happened", "this is old news", "let's focus on something else"... and these were not MAGA posters. But now Trump is looking more and more involved, they sense blood in the water and are circling like sharks.

A lot of you on either side are quite hypocritical.

All the more reason the Dems need to take Congress in the midterms. These scumbags need to go.

Anonymous wrote:Nothing is going to happen to Lutnick. Lutnick is Trumps handler for Israel along with a few others.

I sincerely hope you're wrong. He's guilty of lying and he might be guilty of something worse, so he should be deposed. As of now, with the information that has been released, he's not suspected of having abused any women or girls.

Nothing is going to happen to Lutnick. Lutnick is Trumps handler for Israel along with a few others.

Anonymous wrote:The Chamber of Commerce is now lobbying to get more Visa's because Big Pedophilia needs the workers and can't find enough to meet the demand.

That’s not the motive. The motive is to slam wages — and also, generate fake “GDP” and housing demand, pushing rents and home prices higher and higher.

Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt (which he obviously doesn’t deserve), why would you detail the kids’ ages for a Caribbean lunch? Is there literally any good reason for that?

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Anonymous wrote:This is going to be why he goes, nothing to do with Epstein.

Here's Lutnick, with Epstein, on Epstein's island.

Why the hell is this guy still in office? Why the hell isn't he being grilled for testimony? Why isn't he being investigated?

WHAT THE F IS WRONG WITH YOU REPUBLICANS???

Also in that picture: Brett Ratner who directed the Melania documentary.

Anonymous wrote:While obviously hanging around Epstein after his conviction is incredibly poor taste and bad judgment, exactly what crime are some of you accusing him of? Andrew M-W and Mandelson have been accused of actual crimes regarding leaking political and market information. That’s why they were arrested. You can’t arrest someone simply because they hung out with a sexual predator. There’s no evidence against Lutnick. Some of you simply refuse to acknowledge reality.

So "good judgment" is no longer a requirment for the Secretary of Commerce of the United States of America? Do you hear yourself? We aren't discussing your cable installer, but if we were, you woudln't let him into your house, would you?

Anonymous wrote:While obviously hanging around Epstein after his conviction is incredibly poor taste and bad judgment, exactly what crime are some of you accusing him of? Andrew M-W and Mandelson have been accused of actual crimes regarding leaking political and market information. That’s why they were arrested. You can’t arrest someone simply because they hung out with a sexual predator. There’s no evidence against Lutnick. Some of you simply refuse to acknowledge reality.

It was enough to cause him to formulate an elaborate lie that he spent a long time telling the New York Post about how he met him once and then never wanted to have anything else to do with him.

Anonymous wrote:He exercised bad judgment. He does not deserve to be a secretary in our government. We can do better.

"Exercised bad judgment" is becoming the euphamism of the century.