Rep. Mace says she’ll call Trump Commerce chief Lutnick to testify
Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) (C) speaks at a press conference with committee members (L-R) Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Rep. William Timmons (R-SC), and Rep. John McGuire (R-VA) ahead of former President Bill Clinton’s closed-door testimony with the House Oversight Committee at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center on February 27, 2026. Chappaqua, New York.
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Representative Nancy Mace He said Friday that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should testify. House Oversight Committee To answer questions about her relationship with notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
“Howard Lutnick should take questions from the Oversight committee,” said Mace, R.S.C. an X post Friday morning.
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It is unknown whether the man in the photo is Lutnick, who has not been charged with any crimes related to Epstein.
“I will be asking” Lutnick to testify to the Oversight committee, Mace told reporters late Friday morning.
Mace’s comments come before the panel is set to question former President Bill Clinton in a deposition about his contacts with Epstein.
Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was fired on Thursday over Epstein. She later told reporters that she did not remember meeting Epstein and had no knowledge of his crimes.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters Thursday that it was “very possible” the panel would subpoena Lutnick to testify.
Comer did not call President Donald Trump to testify.
Trump, who had a long-standing friendship with Epstein before the two men split in the early 2000s, said files on Epstein recently released by the Justice Department cleared him of any wrongdoing.
MS Now reported earlier this week that the Justice Department had withheld public memos and memos related to FBI interviews, including those of a woman who alleged Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor.
In response to this and other similar reporters, the DOJ said: “If files are temporarily withdrawn for victims to redact or correct Personally Identifiable Information, those documents will immediately be restored online and made publicly available.”
In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee on February 10, Lutnick admitted that he and his family had lunch with Epstein in 2012 on his private island in the Caribbean.
Lutnick’s testimony came after he claimed he cut off contact with his New York City neighbor, Epstein, in 2005, three years before Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida state court to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
DOJ files show Lutnick remained in contact with Epstein years later.
Now MS “In 2015, Lutnick invited Epstein to an ‘intimate’ fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, where Lutnick was fundraising at the time,” he reported on Feb. 10.
“Epstein donated $50,000 to a New York charity in honor of Lutnick in 2017, according to the filings,” MS Now reported.
The documents also show that Epstein and Lutnick “each signed On behalf of limited companies that reached an agreement to purchase shares in a joint company on December 28, 2012shuttered advertising technology company I called Adfin” CBS News previously reported.
Epstein died by suicide in prison in August 2019, weeks after he was arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges.
