In a televised interview, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick alleged that Jeffrey Epstein’s modus operandi was to blackmail powerful elites like Bill Gates with videos of them with underage girls, and he speculates those tapes were traded to authorities to secure his notoriously lenient 2008 plea deal.
NEW: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he believes Jeffrey Epstein traded in blackmail videos of elites like Bill Gates with underage girls.
Miranda Divine: How come Bill Gates and all these other people could hang around him & not see what you saw?
Lutnick: They… pic.twitter.com/od7COVLm9n
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he believes Jeffrey Epstein traded in blackmail videos of elites like Bill Gates with underage girls.
Miranda Divine: How come Bill Gates and all these other people could hang around him & not see what you saw?
Lutnick: They participated. That’s what his M.O. was. ‘Get a massage, get a massage.’ What happened in that massage room, I assume, is on video.
Divine: So what happened to those videos?… Donald Trump’s people are running the FBI and DOJ…
Lutnick: I assume they traded those videos [in 2008] in exchange for him getting that 18-month sentence, which allowed him to have visits and be out of jail.