Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(131,061 posts)
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 02:02 PM 7 hrs ago

Elizabeth Warren calls on Harvard to sever ties with Larry Summers after new Jeffrey Epstein emails

Source: CNN

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Harvard University should sever ties with Larry Summers, the school’s former president and one of its most prominent faculty members — putting new pressure on the elite university to hold Summers accountable for his close friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

New details of Summers’ relationship with Epstein emerged last week when a House committee released emails showing years of personal correspondence between the two men, including Summers making sexist comments and seeking Epstein’s romantic advice.

Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor and now the Democratic senior senator from Massachusetts, said in response to a CNN inquiry that she believes Summers “cannot be trusted” with students given his past relationship with Epstein.

“For decades, Larry Summers has demonstrated his attraction to serving the wealthy and well-connected, but his willingness to cozy up to a convicted sex offender demonstrates monumentally bad judgment,” Warren told CNN. “If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein’s sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation’s politicians, policymakers, and institutions — or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/exclusive-elizabeth-warren-calls-harvard-170550544.html

11 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies

erronis

(21,972 posts)
2. Unless we (the US society as a whole) can hold these people as criminals, we are condoning it.
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 02:29 PM
7 hrs ago

I'm sure this form of divine rights (for the powerful/monied) has existed forever. But a democracy that strives to give every person a say in the future cannot allow this usurpation of power.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,223 posts)
3. Summers sought Epstein's advice in 2018 on screwing a "mentee"
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 02:29 PM
7 hrs ago
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’

Summers, who has been married since 2005, told Epstein he thought the woman was reluctant to leave him because she valued his professional connections. Epstein told him in one June 2019 text, “She is doomed to be with you.”

“Think for now I’m going nowhere with her except economics mentor,” Summers wrote in November 2018. “I think I’m right now in the seen very warmly in rear view mirror category.”
...
A spokesperson for Summers said that the woman described in the exchanges was never Summers’ student, but declined to comment further for this article.

In at least some of his exchanges with Epstein on the relationship, Summers appears to refer to macroeconomist Keyu Jin ’04, a tenured professor at the London School of Economics at the time, who is mentioned in a series of late 2018 messages between the two men.
...
Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name “peril” but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin’s emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstein-wing-man-woman-described-as-mentee/

Keyu Jin is a Chinese name; "peril" in connection with that is ... appalling.

Tanuki

(16,184 posts)
9. Yes, I surmise that Summers and Epstein had a deeply racist
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 04:29 PM
5 hrs ago

code name for Jin, a Chinese national and daughter of a renowned economist and government official, the second part of which was "peril."

fujiyamasan

(984 posts)
4. I hope Summers goes down hard; one of the most hated figures among the democratic base
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 02:58 PM
6 hrs ago

I don’t think anyone would shed a tear if the Epstein files destroyed him.

His reputation was already shot after his tenure at Harvard and that infamous memo or those statements about m female intelligence or whatever. I think his boneheaded economic policies were partly responsible for democrats losing so many seats in 2010. Had a lot of the benefits of the stimulus bill been realized earlier, I think democrats would have done much better.

TLDR: he’s basically a piece of shit. Good riddance.

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Marie Marie

(10,733 posts)
7. Didn't he make some really disparaging remark about women and their intelligence
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 03:33 PM
5 hrs ago

years ago? I remember the controversy but not the quote. Anyway, it all goes to show his lack of respect for women and his involvement with Epstein and his "girls" just back that up. He's always seemed like a creep to me.

MichMan

(16,302 posts)
8. Yes, while he was president of Harvard, between his stints in the Clinton and Obama administrations
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 04:16 PM
5 hrs ago

jfz9580m

(16,138 posts)
11. Yeah he did
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 08:42 PM
50 min ago

Something about women having no aptitude for science.

He is a fucking idiot. Though I will say this, it’s almost as ghastly when this type tries that totally phony “we support women in science!” shit. At least he is honestly a complete creep/boor.

After that mind numbing “woke capitalism” spectacle and greenwashing took a hammer and tongs to enlightenment values sneakily, I figure it’s better when these guys outright attack those things over embrace and destroy them with their marketplace version of some sort of ghastly concept of feminism where you keep losing more rights, but hey here is a fucking emoji that vaguely looks like some random woman.

Besides they are so dislikable you kinda want them as enemies not faking it.

I like that we are going back to old conflict lines.

Latest Discussions»Latest Breaking News»Elizabeth Warren calls on...