Trump Cabinet member planned Epstein island trip long after claim he cut ties

President Donald Trump's Secretary of Commerce planned a trip to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's infamous private island in 2012, The New York Times reported on Friday, years after the period inhe claimed to have severed ties with Epstein.

Howard Lutnick, a finance industry billionaire who has been the public face of Trump's controversial tariff policies, has previously claimed that he and his wife visited Epstein's residence in 2005, and were so disgusted by his obsession with...