Jen Psaki

He's been lying about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Back in October, Howard Lutnick was asked about the fact that he and Epstein had been neighbors in their swanky Manhattan neighborhood.

And in response, Lutnick told the story of visiting Epstein's home in 2005, saying this.

And in the six or 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.

He's gross.

Never.

I will never be in the room with him socially, for business, or even philanthropy.

Turns out that wasn't true.

First, we got the revelation from the Epstein files that Lutnick and his family visited Jeffrey Epstein's island seven years ago.

after Lutnick claims to have cut ties with him.

Then we learned that Lutnick also appears to have had longstanding business ties to Jeffrey Epstein, which is also extended well past the point that Lutnick claims to have cut ties with him.

And now we've learned about this photo of somebody who looks an awful lot like Howard Lutnick with Jeffrey Epstein.

And the interesting part about this photo is that it was mysteriously deleted from the Epstein files after they were initially released.

It was only after people started pointing out that the photo had been removed that it magically reappeared in the publicly available files today.

Because that's how your Justice Department works.

Things just go missing and then they reappear.

Now, just let's be entirely clear here.

This is about who should get fired from Trump's cabinet.

any wrongdoing relating to Jeffrey Epstein, and he's denied any impropriety.

But you'd think that given all of this, the photo, the business ties, the lies about when their relationship ended, you would think that maybe Congress might have deposed him by now as part of their investigation.