Howard Lutnick suggested the late pedophile used sordid massage videos to become the “greatest blackmailer ever.”

Link without paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-cabinet-secretary-faces-call-to-testify-over-his-explosive-epstein-claims/ar-AA1NJyHw

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick may be forced to testify to Congress after suggesting that Jeffrey Epstein secured a sweetheart plea deal by blackmailing people with compromising videos.

Speaking on the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast, Lutnick, a billionaire financier who lived next to Epstein before he was exposed as a pedophile, described how Epstein gave him and his wife a tour of his Manhattan townhouse, which featured a massage table as its centerpiece.

“I say to him, ‘Massage table in the middle of your house? How often do you have a massage?’” Lutnick recalled. “And he says, ‘Every day.’ And then he gets, like, weirdly close to me, and he says, ‘And the right kind of massage.’”

Lutnick claimed that some of Epstein’s wealthy and powerful associates would have received massages from young women and girls at Epstein’s home, and that the encounters were filmed for blackmail purposes.

“They get a massage, that’s what his M.O. was. ‘Get a massage, get a massage,’ and what happened in that massage room, I assume, was on video,” Lutnick said. “This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That’s how he had money.”

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
      5·
      11 hours ago

      Lutnuick made the the comments on an NYT podcast, but the article is about the top Dem on the House oversight committee saying he wanted to subpoena him to testify before Congress.

      “Those were some incredible comments, and I think that it just reinforces why it’s so important that we get the full files released by the DOJ and the Trump administration,” Garcia told CNN’s

      “And quite frankly, after those comments by Mr. Lutnick, we need to speak to him in front of the entire Oversight Committee. We’re very interested in understanding what exactly he knows and where those theories come from,” Garcia added. “Anyone, particularly if you’re in the Trump administration, making those comments so freely—you have to believe they have additional information, and we’re going to follow up.”

        • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
          4·
          12 hours ago

          Literally, a member of congress saying he is going to call Lutnick to testify before Congress in his committee’s investigation of Epstein.

          • Corelli_III@midwest.social
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            12 hours ago

            I’m calling kayfabe. If this turns out to be consequential, or if Lutnick makes good on these promises and is cheated or suppressed or something, I’ll eat crow and post about how you were right and this wasn’t kayfabe.

            • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
              3·
              12 hours ago

              No need to do that.

              I don’t care about Lutnick making good on anything. I care about the congressman making good on forcing him to testify.