President Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed he knows a lot more about late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein than he's previously revealed, according to The New York Post.
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."
The former Cantor Fitzgerald chairman said that in 2005, Epstein even gave him and his wife a tour of the infamous "massage room," in the Manhattan townhome where the sex offender was said to have abused countless girls and women.
“I say to him, ‘Massage table in the middle of your house? How often do you have a massage?'” Lutnick revealed. “And he says, ‘Every day.’ And then he gets, like weirdly close to me, and he says, ‘And the right kind of massage.'”
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.”