A Republican strategist urged another of President Donald Trump’s cabinet secretaries to resign during a CNN segment on Tuesday.

Shermichael Singleton, who hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM, said during a segment on “The Lead” with CNN’s Jake Tapper that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should resign from the administration for being too much of a distraction. Lutnick is facing scrutiny over his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and for allegedly profiting from Trump’s tariff policies.

“I don’t know if he did anything illegal, but I’ll say this as a strategist: you never want any person around the principal to bring their baggage, particularly with midterms coming up,” Singleton told Tapper. “We have a war in Iran, which we’re trying to bring a resolution to. You have the economy that is, quite frankly, unstable for half of the country, and you have a president and a party that wants to keep power.”

“And so, for me, with all due respect to Mr. Lutnick and anyone else that may be a deal-breaker for President Trump, I would say you gotta go!” he added. “You’re too big a distraction, and the president just, frankly, doesn’t need it.”

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