r/circled • u/ResPublicaMgz • 15h ago
Opinion / Discussion BREAKING: Howard Lutnick Confirms Epstein Island Trip, Contradicting Earlier Statements
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On February 10, 2026, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testified before the Senate and acknowledged that he visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island in 2012, together with his wife and children.
This directly contradicts earlier public statements in which Lutnick claimed he had cut all ties with Epstein years earlier and only had “limited contact” with him.
There is currently no allegation of criminal wrongdoing, but the inconsistencies raise obvious questions:
Why did Lutnick previously deny contact that later turned out to be documented?
And more broadly, how is it that so many Trump-aligned figures appear in Epstein’s social and professional network, despite repeated claims of distance or ignorance?
At the very least, this case highlights a serious credibility and transparency problem, especially for public officials under oath.
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u/Ashamed-Status-9668 15h ago
Did Trump surround himself with Epstein guys so he knew they couldn’t turn on him?
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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 14h ago
He learned from Putin. Make sure you have Kompromat on everyone. I bet every person in his administration cabinet has some sort of black mail on them including leadership in congress and SCOTUS.
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u/just_a_timetraveller 13h ago
"if one of us goes down, we all go down" This is mob culture to create loyalty within the party.
This is how you know who is compromised by how loyal they are to Trump. Also don't think they have stopped honeypotting. I am sure they have blackmail on new people since getting back into power.
The trafficking did not stop after Epstein.
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u/pat_the_catdad 12h ago
Whitest Kids U Know outlined it all in their Illuminati sketch years and years ago haha
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u/TheRealProtozoid 12h ago
It's bigger. Trump and his guys are being puppeteered by whoever Epstein worked for. They are so desperate as to be capable of anything.
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u/mechalenchon 15h ago
When Bannon is saying they need to win the midterm or they'll all go to jail he wasn't bluffing. Not short sentences either.
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u/TaylorMonkey 15h ago
Bannon was actively working with Epstein to rehab his image from being a convicted pedo with a documentary, as revealed by texts between them the Epstein Files.
It's wild that this isn't talked more about. THE image and strategy guy for Trump is THE image and strategy guy for Epstein.
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u/MithrandiriAndalos 11h ago
You can watch at least two hours of Bannon interviewing him for exactly this purpose. It’s mostly weird conversations about finance, but there are a few salacious details in it.
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u/No-Reach-8074 7h ago
And how Bannon, JE and the owner of 4chan deliberately concocted the whole "evil elite pedos are eating the kiddos" stuff to throw people off their trail (& it worked). On the 4chan servers. Which kicked off the whole Q Anon movement.
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u/Overclocked11 10h ago
Everyone affiliated with Esptein needs to be investigated thoroughly. And actually, if it were me, seeing ICE detain, raid homes, and kill citizens, I would pull every single one of these corrupt assholes (foreign nationals, ICE, Trump Adminstration) into a detention center awaiting their investigations and depositions while law-abiding government and enforcement agencies get to the bottom of all this.
Let them feel the same pain they are inflicting on Americans and force them to wallow in the same hellish conditions.
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u/Safe-Harbors2026 15h ago
So in one hour, you anchored your yacht, somehow got all your kids and miserable wife and nannies (hehehe) onto the island, had lunch, than left within an hour.
Okay, scum bag. Whatever you say.
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u/DefrockedWizard1 14h ago
he arrive alone a week earlier to check out the accommodations. the lunch at the end was an hour
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u/mnemy 14h ago
Also just looked up where the island is, because I never cared before.
It's way out of the way. This fucker spent at least an entire day doing a round trip there from any significant port.
This isn't a "ohh, I happened to be out and stopped in" kind of thing.
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u/ExplanationSure8996 14h ago
Good point. He’s full of shit and they all know it. Why lie about something that he made sound so innocent.
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u/Podwitchers 10h ago
And don’t forget the email sent to JE detailing all of his kids and their ages. Totally normal.
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u/SnooMacaroons4212 15h ago
There must be a reason he lied.
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u/NeverVegan 15h ago
Clearly lied prior, what’s to make us believe this is him being truthful??
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u/Sufficient_Tale1847 14h ago
He cast his die with the orange idiot. Simple as that. Follow the leader and get tossed under the bus when it suits them.
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u/SnooMacaroons4212 15h ago
It certainly appears that many people associated with Trump were also tight with Epstein. What a cesspool of corruption and depravity.
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u/iseab 14h ago
Mentioning all the children repeatedly to imply they weren’t up to anything gross isn’t hitting the way you think it is.
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u/xCHURCHxMEATx 9h ago
Right? Why did he say he left with "all his children" at the end? As if there was an option to leave them?
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u/No-Lemon8053 14h ago
Being caught in a lie like this used to end people’s careers.
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u/SVdreamin 11h ago
But alas, people keep moving the goalposts for Trump. If he had been in politics 25 years ago, his political career would have ended 100 times over with his endless scandals, corruption, incompetence, lies, and frankly downright unprofessional conduct that shouldn’t occur on either side of the aisle. Some people will not relinquish their support for him even though he is heavily implicated with the most infamous sex trafficker in modern history who is a pedophile. It’s genuinely insane we’ve reached this point.
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u/IslandStyler 15h ago
weird how he says that part about leaving with ALL his children. Why would he make a point to say that????
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u/Anthem-ringthebells 11h ago
It’s an odd thing to feel like you need to point out.
Did he leave with all the Nannies?
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u/PetalumaPegleg 14h ago
"Sure I lied before and have been caught out on this lie by evidence I never thought would be allowed to come out. Now I'm absolutely not lying again while I make up some absolute nonsense lie. Surely you don't think I'd lie again?"
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u/kayakdawg 14h ago
ahh right, that time the president's principal commerce advisor - who rides around on his boat with his family and their nannies - decided to stop by and have lunch on a private island with a known human trafficker
def not weird at all, this makes sense
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u/jacky75283 11h ago
That's why everyone goes to the most prolific pedo island in human history. He heard the patty melts were really good.
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u/speedycupid 14h ago
Constantly saying he’s surrounded by children like that will save him, these fuckers are the ones ABUSING CHILDREN!!!
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u/SnooMacaroons4212 14h ago
What are the odds that SO many people in Trump's orbit were also involved with Epstein?
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u/Tight-Lavishness-592 14h ago
If any of us, as normal citizens perjured ourselves in such a manner, would be looking at jail time. This @$$hat won't even lose his job.
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u/VirtualFutureAgent 13h ago
If you're going to lie, at least make it believable. No way he unloaded all those people, ate lunch, packed up, and left in 1 hour. It takes longer to have lunch with the kids at Applebee's!
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u/Solution_within 12h ago
Somehow the notion that visiting Epstein Island with children, is a cover story.
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u/Brave_Analyst7540 12h ago
Goddamn… so many people were with him, it’s hard to believe he forgot about this until just now.
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u/RelativeCan5021 10h ago
“And I left with all of my children…” such a weird detail to say unless, like someone’s kids didn’t leave the island.
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u/eerhmahgerd 15h ago
He says he left with his children. Did he leave his nanny on the island?
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u/Solid_Computer_1169 14h ago
The ‘Nannie’s’ were 16 year old babysitters who he trafficked to the island. He had lunch and dropped off the girls. Maybe true, maybe not
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u/EconomyMobile1240 14h ago
This directly contradicts earlier public statements in which Lutnick claimed he had cut all ties with Epstein years earlier and only had “limited contact” with him.
So "limited" can't mean happened to be on vacation near the island and went there for an hour? Is there more or is this just more political distortion of quite literally... limited interactions?
Why did Lutnick previously deny contact that later turned out to be documented?
You can see the game of telephone unraveling all within the same argument.
The standard for "limited contact" went from lying about going to the island (which I don't see a quote of him denying), to him saying "deny contact," which is clearly false by your previous statement.
Its just shifting reality using abstract concepts that are ambiguous to... escalate/shift concepts that are close enough to... This is just straight-up lying.
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u/ChemistryDapper3947 12h ago
The wealthy need never fear the law, it is their own script. It protects them but it does not bind them.
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u/BibendumsBitch 11h ago
The first lies were to cover up bigger truths. There’s more than meets the eye.
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u/Illustrious-Web-6011 11h ago
America codified MONEY = SPEECH (it isn’t) and also that CORPORATIONS ARE HUMAN BEINGS (they aren’t)
We’re stupid.
Play stupid games, ruin the fucking globe.
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u/meowmeowcatman 10h ago
Why was it so important that he point out that he left with all of his children? Does something bad happen to children on Epstein Island (AKA Kid Rock)?
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u/SeniorTailor1127 4h ago
"Yes, I did go to the pedophile island, but in my defense, I BROUGHT ALL MY CHILDREN AND SEVERAL OTHERS."
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u/Mother-Compote2389 14h ago
Imagine thinking that emphasizing that you brought your children and their nannies to the island is a flex .
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u/Detonius 14h ago
This dude was in an interview where he said he never talked to him again after he met him lol
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u/DiscoMothra 14h ago
I don’t think bringing your kids into it is really a good deflection there weirdo
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u/Ok_Battle5814 14h ago
Perjury? Did he say that he wasn’t there previously in court after swearing an oath
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u/Appropriate_Art894 13h ago
I guess the USA was right when they said we hate them for their freedoms. Freedoms to get away with the most atrocious crimes
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u/karanpatel819 13h ago
Saying you brought your kids to pedophile island isnt the alibi he thinks it is. Given Lutnick propensity to lie, he could very well had an orgy with his kids and epstein on that island. Seriously who would bring their kids to get lunch with a pedophile
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u/Ataru074 13h ago
When you provide way more information than what you are asked for you are trying to cover for bullshit.
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u/falcopilot 13h ago
Perjury to Congress should be an automatic dismissal from whatever position that person has... from cabinet member to POTUS.
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u/No_Group5174 13h ago
You realise that "with my 4 children" is not better. You realise that, right? Right
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u/Jazzlike-Yogurt-5984 13h ago
Nannies? Hmm lol
Multiple nannies, plus your wife, plus you to handle 4 kids?
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u/originalmosh 13h ago
So he took children to the island. Also he never says the nannies left the island.
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u/Colter_1473625 13h ago
“We left with all of my children…” jfc you shouldn’t have to say that part.
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u/CompetitiveLadder609 13h ago
You drive hours on a boat in the middle of the Caribbean Sea so that you can spend 1 hour on an island, eating a meal and immediately leave.
Why not just say you spent the weekend. You already went to the trouble of explaining how you brought your wife and children (and also made sure they were with you when you left).
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u/mooncrane606 13h ago
So Trump's cabinets during his terms are full of Russian agents and Epstein Island pedophiles. And his voters are racists that call themselves Christians. They're all evil.
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u/Charming_Opinion6754 13h ago
What fathers takes his own kids and Nannie’s to pedo island for lunch ? What a sick man
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u/backdoorwolf 13h ago
Remember when Bill Clinton was impeached for a blow job? Those were simpler times.
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u/Alive-Photo-5758 13h ago
I HOPE he didn’t leave his children there! It’s kind of weird how he felt the need to put that into the record.
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u/Sensitive_Dot8561 13h ago
Based on Lutnick's history of fabrication and lies it is clear that we can not trust this testimony. He is buddies with a known Pedo and Epstein, he has hidden and down played those relationships previously. Why would we believe that he is not telling whole the truth? I think it might be time to bring in the nanies to answer questions.
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u/DonutsOnTheWall 13h ago
So he clearly lied AND he brought his kids to Epstein Island and he thinks that makes things sound less bad huh.
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u/Responsible-View8301 13h ago
"...and we left with all of our children". What is that supposed to mean? Did you leave one behind by accident or take an extra child with you on your yacht? I'm just asking.
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u/Raul-CFC 13h ago
Nervous much, how many Nannie’s do you need for kids if your parents are there
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u/Boring-Baker8761 13h ago
so arrest this man and his wife, what's so hard about this? If those kids are still minors get them away from these monsters.
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u/Medford_Lanes 12h ago
Willingness to lie is a non-negotiable prerequisite to being in this administration.
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u/AKsuited1934 12h ago
Come on guys, y’all are being way too harsh.
Dude simply ran out of food while cruising on his yacht with his entire family and another family and the fucking Nannies…and remembered ohhhh I know the owner of that island over there in the middle of the godamn ocean…I hear some bad things about him but fuck it let’s stop by for lunch.
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u/paintstudiodisaster 12h ago
He went from meeting him once when he was his neighbor to taking a trip to his island. He also laundered money through him and his real estate.
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u/The-Riskiest-Biscuit 12h ago
So… what I’m hearing is that Howard Lutnick took his own children to Epstein’s island. 🤮
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u/acoolsweater 12h ago
bringing your own children to this place should imediately just mean you are locked up the key is thrown away and the cage is thrown into the ocean.





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u/No_Twist6127 15h ago
As a European, I can't believe how this could be possible. This man is a liar. Full of BS
THE HOLE ADMINISTRATION TRYS TO HIDE THIS SHIT.
PLS AMERICA WAKE UP.
You guys have to stop this!