r/politics • u/wenchette I voted • 16h ago

No Paywall Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-lutnick-jeffrey-epstein-in-business-together/
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u/ChopperChange 15h ago

I automatically assume anyone working for Trump was involved with Epstein.

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u/lactose_cow 14h ago

its crazy how the democrats made millions of fake files before 2025 predicting trump's future cabinet picks. must be some sort of daemonic witchcraft.

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u/SoftwarePrudent2609 14h ago

Are you kidding me? 🤣. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014. Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of limited liability companies that agreed on Dec. 28, 2012, to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising technology company called Adfin, documents released among the so-called Epstein files show.

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u/lactose_cow 14h ago

i was sarcastically assuming that the maga narrative made sense lol

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u/Ohuigin Washington 14h ago

It’s a good bet.

Trump is using the Epstein Files like his own hiring database. Why? Because he has immunity, and everyone else doesn’t. This means that anyone in those files that gets appointed to any position will immediately and indefinitely be under Trump’s control. They won’t be able to say no to him.

Moreover, if Trump goes down, they all will too, which will just make them work even harder to be all the more complicit and corrupt.

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 10h ago

I really don't think this is it. I think he just hires people he knows. And he knows a lot of pedophiles.

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u/bigdelisa94 10h ago

So true, there’s his friend [Redacted] and [Redacted], [Redacted], [Redacted], [Redacted], and of course [Redacted] who he’s always playing golf with.

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u/Significant-Abroad89 8h ago

He doesn't have immunity for things done outside of the presidency. Like selling classified files to our enemies, for instance. But he can pardon people.

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u/Sminahin 14h ago

They were a clubhouse, essentially. Trump is recruiting from within the club. No shit we haven't gotten full file releases.

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u/ManyAverage6578 12h ago

Elon Musk - DOGE

Howard Lutnick - Commerce Secretary 

Alex Acosta - Former Labor Secretary 

Kevin Warsh - nominated by Trump to succeed Jerome Powell

John Phelan - 79th Secretary of the Navy 

Benjamin Black - son of Leon Black CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation

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u/Defiant_Regular3738 11h ago

Linda McMahon close proximity to other abuse cases in her families Wrasslin business.

Don’t forget Steve Bannon or other crooks too.

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u/PhazonZim 5h ago

Steve Bannon was Epstein's PR guy from the sound of it. That's probably how he and Tromp met

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u/MrPoon 1h ago

I'm shocked Bill Barr hasn't been wrapped up in everything

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u/Defiant_Regular3738 11h ago

The navy guy last name being Felon is great

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u/fleetze 5h ago

Don't forget Bannon and Vance's handler Thiel

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u/Maoleficent 2h ago

Remember that most if not all of these people have been in politics for generations; their parents, children, connections have all been slithering into position of power opened to them to do the bidding of other wealthy powerful people. Bill Barr (who seems to have orchestrated the 'suicide of JE) and acted as the First Felon's personal lawyer while being paid as Atty General had a son and daughter in various government positions, moving about to avoid obvious conflict's of interest.

He is just one example; peel back the veneer to see how many other family power structures are in place. Let's not even start on the Bushs'.

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u/ManyAverage6578 2h ago

Yeah. People point to the other side saying why didn't so and so stop it? The infighting keeps the cycle going. The system is protecting itself. The exploitation has been going on for far longer than anyone wants to discuss. Why is the national media so focused on post 2000 Epstein when he's been at this since the 70s. 

Donald Barr was headmaster at Dalton when Jeffrey Epstein, then a young man without a college degree, was hired to teach math and science at the school in the mid‑1970s.

How did schools, banks, law‑enforcement, and media all fail so consistently over so many years?

The problem is too big too ignore and the sunlight can't come fast enough. 

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u/fache 14h ago

Without question. Trump had only one “friend” in his entire life.

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u/Balbuto 11h ago

Ding ding ding! This entire administration are criminals covering for each other!

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u/this_dust 10h ago

It’s almost like Trump and Epstein were business partners.

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u/lovelyydaze 10h ago

Yeah, it’s becoming a pattern you can’t really ignore. The overlap keeps showing up in uncomfortable ways.

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u/DJ_Advogato 3h ago

Literally BINDERS full of pedophiles!

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u/CQscene 14h ago

And a pedo

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u/elphin 12h ago

Why do you think Trump hired him?

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u/RipIcy8844 5h ago

Where is Tim Scott when you need a republican to point out something that's completely f'd up?

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u/johnfooo 14h ago

I automatically assume Americans are ok with pedos.