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Topic: Howard Lutnick

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) speaks during a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act outside the U.S. Capitol on November 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Massie: MAGA takes up "for pedophiles"

Alex Galbraith
From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Commerce secretary makes an Epstein mess

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rehaul the "skilled worker" visa program into a sort of loyalty program with Gold and Platinum status levels. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

US residency just got a luxury makeover

CK Smith
Trump wanted 600,000 student from China in US universities. The White House walked back his numbers following MAGA backlash over visa and immigration issues. (Muhammad Farhad / Getty Images)

MAGA push back on Trump immigration math

CK Smith
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President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's tough talk on tariffs is BS

Alex Galbraith
US President Donald Trump signed an executive at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit on December 08, 2020 in Washington, DC. The president signed an executive order stating the US would provide vaccines to Americans before aiding other nations. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump is treating the economy like COVID

Heather Digby Parton
Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman and CEO Howard Lutnick (R), U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of commerce, prepares to meet with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in the Dirksen Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Lutnick's "5-star rating" for conflicts

Daria Solovieva
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City on September 11, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Tariffs trigger worse than a trade war

Heather Digby Parton
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Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick (R) speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump after Trump signed an executive order on reciprocal tariffs in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump: Tariffs "going very well"

Griffin Eckstein
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald gives his speech at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, TN. (Johnnie Izquierdo for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Lutnick's crypto ties under scrutiny

Quinn Sental
Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman and CEO Howard Lutnick (R), U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of commerce, prepares to meet with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in the Dirksen Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Lutnick's company hit with SEC violation

Quinn Sental
Scott Bessent speaks at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C., Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (Dominic Gwinn/Getty Images)

Trump taps hedge fund boss for Treasury

Griffin Eckstein
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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a campaign event at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall on September 12, 2024 in Tucson, Arizona. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

What Trump's revenge agenda is hiding

Heather Digby Parton
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald gives his speech at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, TN. (Johnnie Izquierdo for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump taps Lutnick for commerce sec.

Natalie Chandler
Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Co-Chair of the Trump 2024 Transition Team speaks at a rally for former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump aide bashes vaccines on CNN

Nicholas Liu
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