{"id":73129,"date":"2026-05-06T06:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/trumps-commerce-chief-lutnick-to-face-epstein-grilling-in-closed-door-interview-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:54:52","slug":"trumps-commerce-chief-lutnick-to-face-epstein-grilling-in-closed-door-interview-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/trumps-commerce-chief-lutnick-to-face-epstein-grilling-in-closed-door-interview-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s commerce chief Lutnick to face Epstein grilling in closed-door interview \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Lutnick has acknowledged he visited Epstein\u2019s island with his family in 2012 after earlier claiming he severed ties in 2005<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, will appear before the House oversight and reform committee on Wednesday to answer questions over his past ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lutnick <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/chairman-comer-announces-secretary-lutnick-to-appear-voluntarily-for-a-transcribed-interview\/\">agreed<\/a> in March to sit for a transcribed interview with the committee following the justice department\u2019s release of millions of documents related to Epstein, which included documents showing that Lutnick continued correspondence with Epstein after the disgraced financier had been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor. The session is part of the committee\u2019s broader investigation into Epstein.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/06\/donald-trump-iran-howard-lutnick-jeffrey-epstein-midterms-redistricting-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Lutnick has acknowledged he visited Epstein\u2019s island with his family in 2012 after earlier claiming he severed ties in 2005 Sign up for the Breaking News US email The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, will appear before the House oversight and reform committee on Wednesday to answer questions over his past ties to Jeffrey &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s commerce chief Lutnick to face Epstein grilling in closed-door interview \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/trumps-commerce-chief-lutnick-to-face-epstein-grilling-in-closed-door-interview-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s commerce chief Lutnick to face Epstein grilling in closed-door interview \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}