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Sen. John Kennedy Calls on AG Pam Bondi to Interview Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Over Explosive Epstein Blackmail Claims

During a tense Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) did what few in Washington seem willing to do: demand accountability in the murky and still-unresolved scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the infamous pedophile with powerful friends in very high places.

Kennedy urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to interview Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after Lutnick made bombshell claims last week that Epstein was “the greatest blackmailer ever.” Yes, you read that right — blackmailer. The comment directly contradicts the Department of Justice’s July report, which laughably claimed there was “no evidence” Epstein blackmailed anyone. Sure — and we’re supposed to believe the DOJ after the way they’ve handled every other politically sensitive case in recent years?

On the podcast “Pod Force One,” Lutnick explained that Epstein’s fortune didn’t come from genius investing, but from blackmailing the powerful — capturing his “clients” in compromising situations and profiting from their silence. Kennedy, visibly fed up with the DOJ’s selective blindness, pressed Bondi on whether she remembered Lutnick’s statement. She admitted she had seen the clip.

Kennedy laid it out clearly: “It appears that Secretary Lutnick was Mr. Epstein’s next-door neighbor. Their townhomes even shared a wall. When the interviewer asked how powerful men could be so closely tied to Epstein, Lutnick replied, ‘They participated.’ He then said Epstein was the greatest blackmailer ever — that’s how he got his money.”

That’s not a small allegation. That’s a sitting Commerce Secretary saying out loud what millions of Americans already suspect — that Epstein’s empire was built not just on exploitation but on protection from people in power who didn’t want their secrets exposed.

When Kennedy asked if the DOJ had interviewed Lutnick after his statement, Bondi admitted they had not — and had no plans to. Kennedy’s response was blunt, as usual: “Don’t you think you ought to talk to him after this interview?”

Bondi sidestepped, saying, “If Howard Lutnick wants to speak to the FBI, and if Director Patel wants to speak to him, absolutely.” In other words — business as usual in Washington.

Republican senators Pam Bondi and Marsha Blackburn didn’t stop there. They also called out Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for still refusing to release Epstein’s flight logs — you know, the ones that could tell us exactly which “elites” were flying to the island that “didn’t exist” until it suddenly did. Transparency apparently isn’t part of the Democrats’ vocabulary when it comes to their own crowd.

Meanwhile, President Trump, who has always been open about cutting ties with Epstein after discovering his predatory behavior, reminded reporters back in July that Epstein was “no friend of mine.” Trump said he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after the disgraced financier “stole” spa workers, including Virginia Giuffre, who later testified she was trafficked to Epstein’s island. Even Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime accomplice, told DOJ officials that Trump was “a gentleman in all respects” and that she “never witnessed him in any inappropriate setting.”

Contrast that with the deafening silence — or in some cases, excuses — from Democrats who continue to protect names on Epstein’s client list.

Let’s be honest: if the roles were reversed — if it were Trump’s friends showing up on those flight logs — the FBI would’ve raided every mansion from Manhattan to Malibu by now. Instead, we get bureaucratic shrugs and “ongoing investigations” that never seem to end.

Senator Kennedy’s question cuts right to the heart of it: if the Commerce Secretary of the United States says Epstein was blackmailing people, and the DOJ refuses to even pick up the phone, what exactly are they afraid of finding?

It’s time for transparency. It’s time to publish the flight logs, interview Howard Lutnick, and stop pretending Epstein’s “client list” is a conspiracy theory. The American people deserve the truth — no matter who it implicates. ??