The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, had lunch with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the disgraced financier’s private island, he said on Tuesday, as he faces mounting calls to resign from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
The US House member Thomas Massie, a Republican, called for the commerce secretary – a Wall Street billionaire, and longtime ally of Donald Trump – to resign over the weekend. During an appearance on CNN’s Inside Politics, Massie said: “Really, he should make life easier on the president, frankly, and just resign.”
Pointing to how the Epstein scandal has roiled UK politics, costing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor his title as a prince and Peter Mandelson his role as UK ambassador to Washington, Massie added: “If this were Great Britain, he’d already be gone.”
“Lutnick must resign or be fired,” US House member Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, said in a Twitter/X post on Sunday. “And he must answer our questions.”
So, he says he was with his family. That might be true for one of the visits. But can anyone trust a dude that hangs with Epstein on his private island filled with young girls waiting on you?
Can we trust someone who proudly lies about having ever hung out with his neighbor?
