{"id":18902,"date":"2026-02-12T03:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-dodges-questions-about-lutnicks-connections-with-epstein-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:22:16","slug":"bondi-dodges-questions-about-lutnicks-connections-with-epstein-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-dodges-questions-about-lutnicks-connections-with-epstein-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi dodges questions about Lutnick\u2019s connections with Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi gave no direct answer Wednesday when pressed by Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) on whether the Justice Department has made any effort to question Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. &ldquo;Secretary Lutnick has addressed those ties himself,&rdquo; Bondi replied&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/11\/congress\/pam-bondi-howard-lutnick-00776491\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi gave no direct answer Wednesday when pressed by Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) on whether the Justice Department has made any effort to question Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. &ldquo;Secretary Lutnick has addressed those ties himself,&rdquo; Bondi replied&#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-18902","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\/18902","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=18902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}