Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick trashed FBI Director Kash Patel’s assessment that there is no evidence Jeffrey Epstein trafficked young women to other people.

Speaking on the New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast, Lutnick, a top ally of Donald Trump, said he believes Epstein also used his victims to film compromising videos to blackmail people, which he claims helped Epstein secure his controversial 2008 sweetheart plea deal.

Lutnick, who used to be Epstein’s neighbor in New York City, made the remarks while describing how Epstein showed him and his wife his “massage room” during a tour of his Manhattan apartment.

“I say to him, ‘Massage table in the middle of your house? How often do you have a massage?’” Lutnick said. “And he says, ‘Every day.’ And then he gets, like weirdly close t

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