Ex-Harvard president Larry Summers apologises over Epstein emails

After his emails with the scandalous financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made public, former Harvard president Larry Summers has apologized and said he will step down from the public life.

“I feel incredibly sorry for my actions and am aware of the harm they have caused.” In a statement released by CBS News on Monday, Summers said, “I take full responsibility for my foolish decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein.”

As part of my wider effort to rekindle trust and repair relationships with the people who are most important to me, he said, “I will be stepping back from public commitments while continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations.”

In response to ongoing inquiries regarding the former financier’s relationship with President Donald Trump, the 20, 000 pages of documents obtained from Epstein’s estate and released last week by the US House Committee on Oversight included the emails.

In August 2019, Epstein committed suicide while the charges of sex trafficking were pending. He previously received a light 13-month sentence after being found guilty in 2008 of scheming against a minor for prostitution and soliciting prostitution. Epstein had regular contact with celebrities, world leaders, and famous people like Summers prior to his downfall in 2019.

Between Epstein and Summers’ emails, which run from at least 2017 to 2019, cover a variety of subjects, including Trump’s first presidency and personal matters.

Following a Washington Post article about Barrack Jr’s relationship with both Trump and political lobbyist Paul Manafort, Summers advises Epstein in an email from 2017 that his “pal,” billionaire Thomas Barrack Jr., should not be covered by the media.

He wrote, “The public link to Manafort will be disastrous.” This is an incredible]expletive show.

Summers emails Epstein about getting a ticket to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which Epstein appears to decline in another December 2018 email.

Summers previously served as President Barack Obama’s adviser and as the Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton. He also held the position of Harvard’s president from 2001 to 2006 when he was forced to step down over remarks suggesting that women were less adept at math and science because of biological differences.

According to NBC News, he has previously held positions such as chair of the OpenAI board and distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. After leaving, he remained a Harvard professor.

Summers’ emails to Epstein show that he still believes in his views on women more than ten years later. Epstein wrote in an October 2017 email about an event that featured “a lot of slathering to Saudis” that he “yipped about inclusion.”

Without mentioning that women make up more than 51% of the population, he wrote in the email to Epstein.

Summers appeared unsatisfied with the wave of resignations over sexual and personal misconduct by US public figures in another email from the same month.

In the email to Epstein, he wrote, “I’m trying to figure out why the American elite thinks that if you murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be irrelevant to your admission to Harvard, but you hit on a few women ten years ago and can’t work at a network or think tank.”

He and Epstein go over the details of their relationship with a female coworker in another email exchange that occurred late in November and early December 2018, and how Summers should handle the circumstance.

“Think for now that I’m only going to be with her as an economics mentor.” I believe I’m currently in the “seeed very warmly in rearview mirror” category. She was “tired,” so she didn’t want to have a drink. I abruptly left the hotel lobby. Summers wrote to Epstein in a letter to him that made him believe that he was avoiding a bullet.