'The greatest blackmailer ever': Top Trump official drops Jeffrey Epstein bombshell

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In an interview on the tabloid's "Pod Force One" podcast, Lutnick told The Post's Miranda Devine that Epstein, his former neighbor, was "the greatest blackmailer ever," and that "may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal."

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The Commerce Secretary then added that, “in the six to eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again."

When Devine pressed for more details on Epstein's rich and famous associates mentioning Prince Andrew and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, but never mentioning Trump, Lutnick didn't hold back.

"They participated," he said. "They get a massage, that’s what his MO was. ‘Get a massage, get a massage,’ and what happened in that massage room, I assume, was on video,” the commerce secretary went on. “This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever, blackmailed people. That’s how he had money.”

https://www.alternet.org/trump/epstein-lutnick/

Trump's Epstein rift within MAGA grows as cabinet secretary rejects Kash Patel's trafficking claims

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick believes Jeffrey Epstein secured his lenient 2008 prison sentence by providing prosecutors with compromising video footage of clients who participated in his sex trafficking operation.

The provocative claim appears to fly in the face of what FBI Director Kash Patel said at a congressional hearing last month when he insisted the feds have 'no credible evidence' Epstein trafficked women to anyone other than himself.

Lutnick, a New York native, lived next door to Epstein for 10 years.

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'I mean, he's a serial sex offender. How could he get 18 months and be able to go to his office during the day and have visitors and stuff? There must have been a trade.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15153241/Trump-Epstein-rift-Kash-Patel.html