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   XPost: alt.politics.trump   
   From: Sl-a-long@hmn.com   
      
   Ah, yes, forgot about that time he took his family to Epstein's island.   
      
   Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein were next-door   
   neighbors on Manhattan's Upper East Side. According to Lutnick, though, they   
   barely knew each other. In a story Lutnick told on a podcast last year, he   
   and his wife went in Epstein's house once in 2005, got a house tour, and   
   "decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever   
   again, " adding, "I was never in the room with him socially, for business or   
   even philanthropy. " As the Epstein files revealed, though, that wasn't true.   
   Lutnick and his family visited Epstein on his island in 2012, and the two   
   were in business and otherwise corresponding sporadically over the years; at   
   least one email suggests they had scheduled drinks.   
      
   So does "lying about having not been to the Epstein island" constitute a   
   firing from Trump's Cabinet? Not as of yet. Trump likes having Good-Time   
   Howie around, for one, and if he starts doling out consequences to people for   
   their associations with Epstein, well, that would put Trump himself in quite   
   a corner. That Lutnick's future in the Cabinet has been a live question all   
   week speaks mostly to the number of enemies he's made in Congress and the   
   administration for his sycophancy on behalf of Trump's worst impulses.   
      
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