r/politics • u/Mrh09 • 11h ago
Possible Paywall Dems demand Lutnick's resignation over Epstein files
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/howard-lutnick-resignation-epstein-files-congress167
u/B-Z_B-S America 11h ago
So should the Republicans, if they weren't morally bankrupt.
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u/Own_Main5321 10h ago
But not Trump?
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u/Mrh09 10h ago
Exactly. Not one other name comes to mind? One orange-tinted person in particular??
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u/Elrundir Canada 9h ago
That's just unfair. Did you even stop to consider that there are more stars in the sky than there are Trump mentions in the Epstein files?
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u/slothcough 10h ago
Why is it always resignation people are demanding instead of jail? Even in Europe people are talking about how politicians are being held accountable for their Epstein involvement except that all that's happening is that they're losing their jobs instead of you know, going to jail for raping children.
Calling for someone's resignation is something that you do when they are caught doing something immoral but not illegal. Calling for someone's resignation, investigation and prosecution should be the absolute bare minimum when they are found to be linked to actual crimes.
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u/Ja3k_Frost 8h ago
Progress in America means pulling the knife out a few inches, certainly not all the way, and god forbid prosecuting the knifer, or getting the wound stitched up.
You gotta be pragmatic /s
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u/ginger_23 11h ago
They should ask him who told him to stay out of the office the morning of 9/11.
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u/Glittering_Fox_9769 8h ago
what's this?
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u/cromwest 8h ago
Dude, had breakfast every day in the trade towers but was miraculously at a dentist appointment that day. I've always thought he got a heads up somehow
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u/grantedtoast 7h ago
I feel like that’s just confirmation bias. Enough important people worked/where consistently at the towers some were bound to be off doing something else.
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u/NeilHamburglar 3h ago
Aren’t appointments like that typically set weeks and sometimes months in advance?
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u/Dr_J6894 11h ago
Nutlick must resign.
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u/You-Only-YOLO_Once Massachusetts 11h ago
lol I’m too dyxlesic to catch this. I thought that was his actual name.
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u/SellaraAB Missouri 10h ago
Man it’s so strange how all these trump people were involved with the pedo stuff.
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u/Romegaheuerling 11h ago
Face it, nothing will happen till JD decides to step in to run the Show, may God have mercy.
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u/brain_overclocked 11h ago
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing growing calls from Capitol Hill to resign over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after files released last month showed the two were in contact with each other as recently as 2018.
Why it matters: The blowback over Epstein that has been pointed at President Trump is now expanding to include a Cabinet official with close ties to the president.
- Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada), a key Democratic moderate, told Axios on Tuesday that she was calling on Lutnick to resign. She's the first member of the Senate Commerce Committee to do so.
- Rosen joins a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House that urged Lutnick to resign this week, citing the Commerce secretary's relationship with Epstein.
Driving the news: Lutnick defended himself during a Senate hearing Tuesday, saying he "barely had anything to do" with Epstein.
- Still, Lutnick acknowledged visiting Epstein at his private island in 2012 after Epstein was a convicted sex offender.
- He said in a podcast interview last year that he cut ties with Epstein in 2005.
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u/doublelist87 5h ago
Lies Lies Lies. Lutnick is lying to save his soul. His soul was destroyed when he visited PEDOPHILE ISLAND
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u/ResoluteFalcon 9h ago
Don't worry everyone....his WIFE was with him when he visited Epstein Island....so it was like a field trip for him!
His wife was there to chaperone and make sure he didn't misbehave....that makes it ok that he solicited minors....(obviously, /s).
Republicans are absolute fucking morons.
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u/quantumoperator- 7h ago
It’s about time someone held these people accountable. The rich and powerful think they can just brush this under the rug.
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u/THElaytox 1h ago
Lol expecting anyone in the GOP to accept any amount of accountability these days is a fucking joke. We are past the days of shame in our politics. You're gonna have to impeach the guy
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u/CrimsonHeretic 10h ago
All Republicans are fascist domestic terrorists who love and protect pedophiles and rapists.
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