Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is the primary cupboard official to testify earlier than the Home Oversight Committee in its Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and Oversight Committee Democrats briefed the media throughout Lutnick’s testimony, the place they accused the Secretary of mendacity to Congress.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) stated:
After what we have now seen to date on this transcribed interview, I really feel very snug saying that Howard Lutnick is a pathological liar who’s enabling essentially the most egregious cover-up in American historical past.
Now we have now gone by way of the timeline of occasions with him intimately, in excruciating element, from once they met in 2005. That is Howard Lutnick and his spouse assembly Jeffrey Epstein. He described it himself in nice element on a podcast final 12 months, the place he stated that they went to his dwelling, they took a tour, and allegedly had been so uncomfortable after seeing the therapeutic massage tables in Jeffrey Epstein’s dwelling that Howard Lutnick went on on this podcast to inform the American those who he himself, and, and my colleagues referenced the, the definitions he tried to, uh, change of, of what he meant there, however he stated that he would by no means socially or professionally be concerned or be in a room with Jeffrey Epstein once more.
Then in 2012, he took his household and his workers to Jeffrey Epstein’s island. I focus my questions right now on how he may have finished that if him and his spouse had been really so uncomfortable, particularly when in 2008, we all know that Jeffrey Epstein was accused, and the lover deal occurred, for soliciting a minor. Howard Lutnick tried to inform us in that room that he basically did not know any of that.
I requested him, how did I, as a baby on the time- see this everywhere in the media about Jeffrey Epstein, and also you, an grownup who was this particular person’s neighbor, who had engaged with him earlier than, how may you probably not have recognized? I imply, the extent of the lies which can be going down inside that room with out video is unbelievable, and a part of this egregious cover-up. I like to recommend that each single American, when this interview is launched, learn the doc in full. You will note Howard Lutnick use phrases like, um, uh, the way it’s inexplicable and unsettling that he went to the island. That is how he defines it himself. It is inexplici- i- inexplicable how this occurred. He additionally tries to outline all of their interactions as, quote unquote, “Meaningless and inconsequential.” I feel he is used these phrases about 20 instances to date, and continues to make use of them.
So I’ll simply finish by saying that there are actual victims right here. There are doubtlessly over 1,000 ladies who had been abused and raped once they had been youngsters, and even on the naked minimal, Howard Lutnick was conscious of these items. He knew. It simply demonstrates the tradition of enabling these crimes, and permitting wealthy and highly effective folks like Jeffrey Epstein, and all the different disgusting wealthy and highly effective males who dedicated these crimes, to proceed. As a result of folks like Howard Lutnick knew these items had been occurring, as a result of they had been everywhere in the information, and continued to have interaction and legitimize anyone like Jeffrey Epstein.
Howard Lutnick is accused of mendacity to Congress and altering his story about Epstein, and Democrats zeroed in on whether or not Lutnick talked to Donald Trump earlier than the Commerce Secretary testified.
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