NEW: Sununu’s False Answer About Qatar Fuels Epstein-Files Fight [Washington Post]

Washington Post: “Sununu traveled to Doha in 2001 and participated in a public World Economic Forum event there in 2010 — the same event referenced in emails between Epstein and Nikolic […] Nikolic asked Epstein for advice on whom he should meet a day before the event, and the late sex offender wrote, ‘John Sununu, has good stories’”

John E. Sununu’s “connections” to disgraced child sex predator Jefferey Epstein are back in the spotlight today as new bombshell reporting from The Washington Post exposed a “false answer” from the floundering Senate candidate, who Epstein said “has good stories” in a May 2010 email to associate Boris Nikolic.

Sununu’s campaign is now being forced to walk back his past on-camera claims that he had never been to Doha, Qatar, as the Post uncovered new images that place him at the very event “referenced in emails between Epstein and Nikolic.”

See for yourself:

Washington Post: Sununu’s false answer about Qatar fuels Epstein-files fight

• Back in March — as questions in New Hampshire circulated about whether the Republican Senate candidate John Sununu had any connections to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Boris Nikolic — Sununu was asked a question.
• “Have you ever been to Doha, Qatar?” asked a person, camera in hand.
• “No,” Sununu said, shaking his head.
• His campaign now tells us that answer was not true.
• Sununu traveled to Doha in 2001 and participated in a public World Economic Forum event there in 2010 — the same event referenced in emails between Epstein and Nikolic.
  
• Those emails included one ambiguous mention of “John Sununu,” […]
• The emails were among correspondence released by the Justice Department earlier this year. In May 2010, Nikolic sent Epstein a list of attendees for a World Economic Forum event in Qatar. The 2010 WEF Global Redesign Summit in Doha was scheduled to begin days later. Nikolic asked Epstein for advice on whom he should meet a day before the event, and the late sex offender wrote, “John Sununu, has good stories,” […]
• The exchange spurred a controversy in New Hampshire as Sununu, the son of former New Hampshire governor John H. Sununu, mounted a Senate campaign to replace retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D). […]
• But that conversation is why Sununu was approached with the question in March.
• A photo of Sununu was also featured in a report that the World Economic Forum produced after the event. You can see his photo on Page 10.
• So why does this matter?
• Scott Brown, a former Massachusetts senator who has relocated to New Hampshire and is now running against Sununu in the September primary, has attempted to make the Epstein email an issue, arguing the emails “have raised serious questions” and using it to cast Sununu as an “insider” who connected “to a D.C. machine or elite social circles.”
• “Voters shouldn’t have to guess who, or which one of their representatives were associated, or what “stories” are being referenced in federal documents,” Brown wrote on X in February.
• […] It could, however, become an issue in the general election, where Sununu is expected to face Rep. Chris Pappas, the leading Democrat for his party’s Senate nomination.
• And all of this underscores the deep political toxicity of even the most scant connection to Epstein.
• President Donald Trump has been dogged by his well-documented ties to the disgraced financier, and the issue has proved to be one of the few areas where the president’s often loyal base has been willing to break with him.
• The Epstein issue was also front and center Wednesday when acting attorney general Todd Blanche testified before the Senate as he vies to become Trump’s permanent pick for the job. Blanche acknowledged in his testimony that “mistakes were made” in how the administration handled the so-called Epstein files, but that he wanted to “make sure that the American people know that this administration, when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, has been more transparent than any administration.”
• Asked about this reporting on Wednesday, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley said Sununu had been “caught in his egregious lie” and needed to explain “the extent of John Sununu’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.”