Lutnick lived next door to Epstein back in the early 2000’s – (Photo the White House/Wiki Media)First hand experiences matter.Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was a guest in New York Post’s ‘Pod Force One’, where he talked where he talked about commerce, tariffs – and Jeffrey Epstein.In statements that are not aligned with the DOJ, Lutnick claimed that the late convicted sex offender was ‘the greatest blackmailer ever’.He thinks that Epstein had video of rich and powerful figures getting ‘massages’ from young women.Lutnick went as far as suggesting that the pedophile traded these images in exchange for his controversial 2008 ‘sweetheart plea deal’.New York Post reported:“The 64-year-old cabinet secretary said that Epstein himself showed off his notorious ‘massage room’ while giving Lutnick and his wife a tour of the infamous East 71st Street townhouse after the couple moved in next door to the since-disgraced financier in 2005.‘I say to him, ’Massage table in the middle of your house? How often do you have a massage?’’ Lutnick recalled. ‘And he says, ’Every day’. And then he gets, like weirdly close to me, and he says, ’And the right kind of massage’.”The Greatest Blackmailer Ever?“Lutnick said he and his wife quickly excused themselves and left Epstein’s home, ‘and 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’.”Lutnick also said he believes that Epstein’s rich and powerful associates — such as Prince Andrew and Bill Gates – participated in the potential criminal activity.“’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’.” JUST IN: Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s Commerce Secretary said today that Epstein was the “GREATEST BLACKMAILER EVER”Okay… so it’s NOT a “hoax” then? pic.twitter.com/u9cajjOAIm— Diligent Denizen (@DiligentDenizen) October 2, 2025Read more:Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on Trump’s Winning Tariff Deal with the EU (VIDEO)/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i