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Lutnick is Secretary of Commerce. This is a smaller role than Scott Bessent, who is the Secretary of the Treasury.

You're right, I'm wrong, sorry, I was checking my memory on Wikipedia [1] which opens the section of his bio "Secretary of Commerce" with the line "Following the 2024 presidential election, Lutnick was being considered as secretary of the treasury." and I swapped the two roles.

While a smaller role, this is a worse conflict of interest as the secretary of commerce is directly responsible for recommending tarriff actions to the President.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Lutnick#Secretary_of_co...

Amazing. Did he get the role because of his skillset, of because of his skill at keeping his mouth shut?

His brother-in-law is a prison guard. Just kidding but would anyone be surprised?

And bought a house from Epstein for $10