The Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was not “truthful” about his Jeffrey Epstein ties.
Watch Rep. James Comer’s remarks to reporters in the video player above.
Rep. James Comer told reporters as he entered the closed-door interview that Lutnick had in the past not been “100% truthful” about whether he had ever visited Epstein’s infamous private island.
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Lutnick said on a podcast last year that he had decided to “never be in the room” with Epstein following a 2005 tour of Epstein’s home that disturbed Lutnick and his wife. But the release of case files on Epstein showed that Lutnick had kept in contact with Epstein and met up with him a couple of times in 2011 and 2012.
Under questioning from Democrats during an unrelated hearing earlier this year, Lutnick said he had visited Epstein’s private island with his family in 2012 for lunch.
