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Ex-Harvard president Larry Summers steps back from public role after Epstein email release
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As well he should have.Ex-Harvard president Larry Summers steps back from public role after Epstein email release
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Max Matza
Reuters Former Harvard president Larry Summes waves from the seat of a golf cart as he talks on a mobile phoneReuters
Former Harvard University president Larry Summers has said he will step back from public commitments after his emails with disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein were made public.
"I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognise the pain they have caused," he said in a statement to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
Emails released by a House committee last week show Summers, a former US treasury secretary, communicated with Epstein until the day before the Epstein's 2019 arrest for the alleged sex trafficking of minors.
On Tuesday, House members are expected to vote on a measure calling for the release of all Epstein-related files that have yet to be made public.
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The measure would then head to the Senate, and require the approval of US President Donald Trump.
Summers served as treasury secretary under former President Bill Clinton and director of the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama. He was president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006 and is currently a professor there.
He wrote in his statement on Monday: "I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr Epstein."
He added that he wanted "to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me".
"While continuing to fulfil my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort," Summers wrote.
The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington where Summers was a senior fellow, also announced on Monday that he was no longer affiliated with the organisation.
Summers is still listed as a member of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI's board, which he joined in 2023 following a failed attempt to oust its chief executive Sam Altman. The BBC has contacted OpenAI and a representative for Summers about whether he will remain a director at the company.
Max Matza
Reuters Former Harvard president Larry Summes waves from the seat of a golf cart as he talks on a mobile phoneReuters
Former Harvard University president Larry Summers has said he will step back from public commitments after his emails with disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein were made public.
"I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognise the pain they have caused," he said in a statement to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
Emails released by a House committee last week show Summers, a former US treasury secretary, communicated with Epstein until the day before the Epstein's 2019 arrest for the alleged sex trafficking of minors.
On Tuesday, House members are expected to vote on a measure calling for the release of all Epstein-related files that have yet to be made public.
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The measure would then head to the Senate, and require the approval of US President Donald Trump.
Summers served as treasury secretary under former President Bill Clinton and director of the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama. He was president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006 and is currently a professor there.
He wrote in his statement on Monday: "I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr Epstein."
He added that he wanted "to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me".
"While continuing to fulfil my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort," Summers wrote.
The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington where Summers was a senior fellow, also announced on Monday that he was no longer affiliated with the organisation.
Summers is still listed as a member of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI's board, which he joined in 2023 following a failed attempt to oust its chief executive Sam Altman. The BBC has contacted OpenAI and a representative for Summers about whether he will remain a director at the company.
Larry Summers steps back from public role after Epstein emails emerge
The former US treasury secretary says he is "ashamed" of his emails to the late sex offender.www.bbc.com
You see, the difference between trumptards like you and decent people - decent people don't try to defend scumbags.
Jake Starkey
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Jake Starkey
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FIFY Republicans
I mean - you see what's happening - they think we're stupid. Yes, summers was one of the people in Epstein's orbit. But there were many others who knew full well what Epstein was into and were fine with it:
Jake Starkey
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^^^ troll and sock
fixed it for you, you punk
Changing backquotes violates board rules, Blowhard.
But as usual, the ONLY way you can defend the pedo party is by lying.
Oh wow, that picture must be from last week....
Did you know that in the early 90's - Trump was part of the pedocrat party? AND a major supporter of Bill Clinton? In fact Clinton introduced him to his close friend Jeff Epstein. But Trump ended up banning Epstein because Jeff was a pedo. Bill didn't mind, but Trump was disgusted by it.
Trump ended up leaving the pedo democrats - could be because the pedo democrats promote pedophilia? You think?
It means that all 6 new names revealed by the 20,000 emails and texts have ALL been pedocrats. Including the fact that pedocrat Rep. Stacey Plaskett was directly taking orders from Epstein during congressional hearings.
It's not looking good for the pedo party. democrats have long supported "Minor Attracted Persons," so none of this comes as a surprise.
Pedo party is gunna pedo...
Jake Starkey
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troll You alter things all the time.
More pathological lies from Blowhard Jake.troll You alter things all the time.
I'd ask you for a cite - but you're a lying cunt and never support anything you vomit out.
In fact, only one pathological liar is as cunty as you... The Jake Starkey name predates the Douche Duck name - but it looks like you are a sock of the same rodent that posts as that putrid pool of diarrhea...
Aren't ya, Douchie?
Jake Starkey
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You are a troll and a coward and a cunt.
Simply worthless. And so easily to deal with.
Simply worthless. And so easily to deal with.
Did Summers setup a fake modeling agency because he and his friends like taking advantage of women and girls? Did Summers use that fake modeling agency to claim a 14 year old girl was a model, getting her a visa, and then use his plane to fly her to NYC and give her to Epstein as a birthday gift? Does Summers even have a plane?
Summers exchanged emails with Epstein, and talked about Epstein becoming his "wingman." trump actually was the wingman of Epstein. They were close friends for 20 years.
trump claims he did not know that the children he gave Epstein were being sexually abused, and when he found out, he was not legally required to help those children at all... Maybe, but does that excuse really qualify trump to be president?
Summers is guilty of far less, and we are demanding he retire from public life(not president of anything, but that was too much).
Summers, unlike trump, is not even accused of doing anything specifically illegal. That being said, he did some shady things, not trump level shady, and probably does not belong in a position of trust.
trump delivered children to Epstein. trump solicited dirty money from foreign drug king pins.
Anyone associated with Hollywood we have heard of so far live in NYC or Florida. Epstein did not spend any real time on the West Coast. He did not have many contacts there.
I know you want to blame "Hollywood", but it is more NYC and Florida. trump and Epstein swapped contacts, and neither had many Hollywood contacts.
I am just saying that Summers having a hint of guilty means he cannot be on a board, but trump having a strong stain of guilty makes him OK to be President of the USA?
I know to you obeying trump is the highest calling, but many of the rest of us want to get to the bottom of this child sex trafficking ring. Epstein did not have a fake modeling agency to recruit girls. We need to find who had the fake modeling agency. These bastards are so self centered, the guilty party has almost certainly named the modeling agency after himself. So if the guilty party was John Smith, he would name the modeling agency Smith Modeling, and say he created it because he and his friends like "beautiful things."
We need to find someone associated with Epstein, who meets that description.
I know you believe trump has God-like innocence, and is much better than a saint, but quite the opposite has been proven.
You are claiming that trump stopped raping children when he left the Democratic Party? Does that mean he went back to raping children when he returned to the Democratic Party?
The reality is the reason trump left the Democratic Party was the Democrats did not want him. He had to settle on the Republicans, because they were the only ones who would accept him.
Democrats saw that trump was a sick freak, where Republicans are just now learning it.
you have zero evidence that he "found out"
that is part of the democratic hoax at this point. You leap to one conclusion, when a more likely one is he is protecting wealthy people and that is why he fought the release.
Derp derp. I have been highly critical of Trump on several issues - this is one of them
If you are looking for the modeling agency, we know the who already - Jean-Luc Brunel. your transparent attempts at hoping this leads to Trump shows you aren't for truth, you are for games
Jean-Luc Brunel - Wikipedia
You are actually arguing that trump still has not found out that Epstein molested children? You think trump is that far disconnected from reality?
So trump is now fighting the release to protect a conspiracy of wealthy child molesters... And somehow you think that makes it better?
Wow, there was only one recruiter in the world, and he is dead, so there is no longer any sex trafficking...
But can we be sure? We should keep investigating and make sure there is no one else in the world who sex traffics women and girls.
"he was not legally required to help those children at all."
your quote was about the past. you have no proof he found out in the past. can you stop lying for one second? wow you shit stains will go to no end to gain power.
you are claiming his fight over why they ended a friendship was from this - that is a blatant lie.
Yes, at some point in the past, trump found out that his friend Epstein, who he delivered children to, was sexually molesting children. The past means not the present, nor the future.
We can all agree that trump has learned that by now, right?
It has been on all the news shows. trump would have to be extremely out of touch with reality to have not learned as Epstein's actions. Do we really want someone that insanely out of touch with reality to be president?
I actually do not claim to know for certain why they ended their friendship, or even if they ended their friendship. trump sent a very friendly birthday card years after he claimed he ended his friendship with Epstein.
when he was charged with this crime is the only proof you have of Trump finding out.
now who continued to keep Epstein in their orbits after being charged?
not Trump that we can know of. But boy, a bunch of democrats sill kept him around as a useful guy. your party is toxic as fuck and so are you
- The Trump-Epstein relationship began in the late 1980s, with frequent social interaction in the 1990s and early 2000s.
- They reportedly fell out in the early 2000s (commonly cited ~2003-2007).
- Epstein’s major legal milestones: 2008 state plea deal → 2019 federal arrest → 2019 death.
@Walt is a lying sack of shit. how's your investments retard? derp derp
You know you're lying Walt, and we all know you're lying.
You have ZERO evidence to support any of your slander and defamation..
{ Did Summers use that fake modeling agency to claim a 14 year old girl was a model, }
You should be sued - you're claiming Miss America and Teen Miss America are FAKE?
Nah, you're just doing your Heinrich Himmler bit and lying to slander and defame the enemy of your party.
The reality is you're a shameless liar spewing crap without so much as a hint of evidence or fact to back it up.
Now about Barack Obama raping that 6 year old boy on the Resolute desk...
See, it can go both ways Walt - if salacious lies are the basis, then Obama is a child rapist.
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