This is rotten to the core. Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, cut a $5 million check to the Congressional Leadership Fund on April 1, …

This is rotten to the core. Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, cut a 5 million check to the Congressional Leadership Fund on April 1, just weeks after agreeing to testify before the House Oversight Committee about his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein. That testimony happened on May 6. The super PAC he wrote that check to is the main vehicle backing House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson, the very people deciding how hard to press him. Lawmakers were reportedly weighing a subpoena before Lutnick agreed to show up voluntarily. His name appears in more than 250 Epstein-related records. He long claimed he hadn’t seen Epstein after 2005, but records show he visited Epstein’s private island in 2012 with his family. He called the encounters “meaningless and inconsequential.” A 5 million donation from a sitting cabinet secretary to the party running the investigation into him is not a coincidence. It is not normal. It is not how a healthy democracy works. If a Democratic cabinet official did this, every Republican in Washington would be screaming for hearings, indictments, and resignations. The silence tells you everything. Release the Epstein files. All of them. The American people deserve to know who protected this monster, who profited from his network, and who is paying to make the questions go away. https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/howard-lutnick-cut-5-million-check-to-house-republicans-after-scheduling-his-epstein-testimony/

Source: Yann LeCun (X) | 2026-05-22