{"id":18805,"date":"2026-02-09T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/howard-lutnick-faces-bipartisan-calls-to-resign-over-latest-epstein-revelations-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:22:17","slug":"howard-lutnick-faces-bipartisan-calls-to-resign-over-latest-epstein-revelations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/howard-lutnick-faces-bipartisan-calls-to-resign-over-latest-epstein-revelations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing bipartisan calls to resign after he appeared in a recent batch of files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) accused Lutnick in a statement Monday of having &ldquo;lied&rdquo; about the extent of his connection to Epstein&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/09\/congress\/howard-lutnick-epstein-resignation-00771261\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing bipartisan calls to resign after he appeared in a recent batch of files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) accused Lutnick in a statement Monday of having &ldquo;lied&rdquo; about the extent of his connection to Epstein&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}