Trump not ‘aware’ of Lutnick’s 2012 visit to Epstein’s island
The Washington Examiner reports that President Donald Trump said he was not aware of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s 2012 visit to Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St. James Island.Lutnick testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee, detailing three meetings with Epstein, including a 2012 trip to the island with his family. Trump stated he had never spoken to Lutnick about Epstein and was not there during the visit,adding that Lutnick described it as a family lunch and that he himself was not present. The article notes that Lutnick had previously said he severed ties with Epstein in 2005 but that Department of Justice documents showed he maintained sporadic contact with Epstein through 2018 and he lived next door to Epstein in new york City. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump had not lost confidence in Lutnick. The piece includes an embedded video and links to related stories.
Trump says he ‘wasn’t aware’ of Lutnick’s 2012 visit to Epstein’s island
President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that he wasn’t aware of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick‘s visit to Little St. James, an island previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump was asked about recent revelations regarding Lutnick and Epstein during a White House event, specifically whether he was aware about the 2012 visit to the island.
“No I wasn’t aware of it,” Trump said. “I actually haven’t spoken to him about it, but from what I hear, he was there with his wife and children.”
“I guess in some cases, some people were — I wasn’t. I was never there,” the president said. “Somebody will someday say that I was never there.”
Lutnick testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, where he faced significant questioning on the drama and detailed three specific meetings with Epstein, including a trip with his family to Little St. James. Days prior, the latest release of Epstein documents by the Justice Department showed that Lutnick, who had previously stated he severed ties with Epstein in 2005, had maintained sporadic contact with Epstein through 2018.
The commerce secretary lived next door to the disgraced financier and sex criminal in New York City. Lutnick told lawmakers Tuesday that the 2012 visit to Epstein’s island was for a family lunch.
“We had lunch on the island,” he said. “That is true, for an hour, and we left with all of my children, with my nannies, and my wife all together. We were on family vacation. We were not apart. To suggest there was anything untoward about that in 2012 — I don’t recall why we did it.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, while briefing reporters on Tuesday, claimed that Trump had not lost confidence in Lutnick.
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