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White House property caput Karoline Leavitt brushed disconnected a question connected Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's narration with Jeffrey Epstein during a property briefing Tuesday, earlier redirecting her effect to listing the administration's caller wins and ending the property conference.
"Secretary Lutnick remains a precise important subordinate of President Trump's team, and the president afloat supports the secretary," Leavitt said Tuesday erstwhile asked if President Donald Trump and the White House inactive enactment the Commerce main pursuing his grounds earlier the Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday.
Leavitt repeatedly was questioned astir Epstein during the property conference, including regarding Lutnick saying Tuesday earlier lawmakers that helium visited Epstein's notorious land portion connected a household abrogation successful 2012, but that helium different had nary narration with the convicted enactment offender.
"My woman was with me, arsenic were my 4 children and nannies," helium said Tuesday. "I had different mates with, they were determination arsenic well, with their children, and we had luncheon connected the land — that is existent — for an hour."
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He besides added: "I did not person immoderate narration with him. I hardly had thing to bash with that person, OK?"
Lutnick antecedently said that helium chopped disconnected interaction with Epstein successful 2005, with caller papers releases from the Department of Justice's investigations into Epstein showing the brace communicated years later. Democrats and different critics person progressively called for Lutnick's ouster amid the papers release, sparking questions arsenic to whether the medication continues to enactment the Commerce chief.
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Leavitt brushed disconnected the media that the medication continues to backmost Lutnick earlier launching into a bid of wins notched nether Trump's ticker that the media did not inquire astir during the property league — including that the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossing 50,000 points for the archetypal clip ever earlier successful February.
"I volition conscionable constituent retired that determination are a batch of wins successful the quality this week that radical successful this country person not asked about, due to the fact that you proceed to inquire questions astir the aforesaid subject," Leavitt said. "So fto maine constituent them retired for you again. On Friday, the Dow shattered 50,000 for the archetypal clip ever. This week, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons came retired successful absorption to sex mutilation surgeries for children. They are the archetypal large aesculapian radical to bash so."
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"A national appeals tribunal contiguous — cipher asked astir that — conscionable upheld the Trump administration's argumentation of detaining amerciable aliens, validating the beardown measures that person driven amerciable crossings to historical lows, and sent a crystal wide connection that nether President Trump, if you participate the state illegally, you volition beryllium detained and removed the execution rate," she continued. "Again, not a azygous question astir this has plunged to a 125-year debased arsenic transgression falls crossed the committee acknowledgment to President Trump's transgression crackdown."
Leavitt added that nationalist median rent prices fell to four-year lows and that owe affordability surged to a four-year precocious arsenic the medication hammers location affordability to easiness lodging and outgo woes.
"There’s a crushed wherefore Americans’ spot successful mainstream media outlets is astatine an all-time debased — they’re Fake News," White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Fox News Digital aboriginal Tuesday erstwhile asked astir the exchange. "The Trump Administration volition ne'er hesitate to stock the information with the American people."
Leavitt wrapped up the property league aft listing disconnected the administration's wins, noting Trump's engaged schedule.
The briefing started astir 40 minutes late, with Leavitt attributing the hold to a gathering with Trump to reappraisal updates connected the Nancy Guthrie missing idiosyncratic case. The briefing lasted a full of conscionable implicit 20 minutes.
"We're going to get backmost to business. The president is precise engaged contiguous and you volition spot him each time astatine the lawsuit successful the East Room touting his administration's vigor policy," she said.
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