{"id":46505,"date":"2026-02-11T05:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/under-fire-trump-commerce-secretary-confirms-he-visited-epsteins-island\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:12:26","slug":"under-fire-trump-commerce-secretary-confirms-he-visited-epsteins-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/under-fire-trump-commerce-secretary-confirms-he-visited-epsteins-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-fire Trump commerce secretary confirms he visited Epstein&#039;s island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Howard Lutnick says he had lunch on the island in 2012, contradicting previous claims he had cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein in 2005.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwyx9vq0ne0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Lutnick says he had lunch on the island in 2012, contradicting previous claims he had cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein in 2005. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46507,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46505\/revisions\/46507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}