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James Comer, the Republican chair of the House oversight committee, told reporters earlier as he entered a closed-door interview with Howard Lutnick that the commerce secretary had in the past not been “100% truthful” about whether he had ever visited Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous private island.

A reminder that Lutnick – the highest-ranking Trump administration official prominently named in the Epstein files, aside from Donald Trump himself – said on a podcast last year that he had decided to “never be in the room” with Epstein following a 2005 tour of the financier’s home in Manhattan that disturbed him and his wife.

But the release of case files on Epstein earlier this year showed that Lutnick had kept in contact with Epstein – even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl – and met up with him a couple of times in 2011 and 2012.

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[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah he lied under oath to Congress. There's a name for that and a very straightforward punishment

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

promotion?

Nutlick has been insulting Canada for over a year, so he can please get fucked and thrown in jail, thank you.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago

Wow, that sounds like a serious offense that a law & order gang like the Republicans would prosecute to the ends of the earth, even if the offender was the president of the united states!

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

The man took his children to epstein Island after he was convicted. He shouldn't be allowed to hold office.

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 9 points 3 days ago

I'd say a lot of these parasites haven't been honest about their connection to their leaders...

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Technically not in the same room. On the same Epstein Island, mind you…

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago

Islands — the rooms of the sea.

[–] radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is Jeffrey holding a joint out on the bluffs?! altr

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 3 days ago

Who'd have thunk it? Oh, wait, everyone did.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Think they're off by a couple orders of magnitude there.