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RockCreek

(1,163 posts) Mon Nov 17, 2025, 07:56 PM 5 hrs ago

Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal

Source: The Harvard Crimson

Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement Monday evening.

The announcement comes less than one week after seven years of correspondence between Summers and the disgraced financier Jeffrey E. Epstein were released by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. The documents showed Summers and Epstein continued to exchange messages until July 5, 2019 — just one day before Epstein was arrested on new sex-trafficking charges.

“I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” Summers wrote to The Crimson.

He is currently a senior fellow at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, a paid columnist at Bloomberg News, and serves on the board of directors at Open AI. A spokesperson for Bloomberg declined to comment on Summers’ future with the outlet on Monday.

Read more: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/18/summers-steps-back-from-public-commitments-epstein/

IMO he should immediately be removed from all teaching and mentoring duties. With the sexist beliefs he has expressed multiple times over decades, including in his emails with Epstein he has no place in either role. He is unrepentant and he should not be inflicted upon students.

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Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal (Original Post) RockCreek 5 hrs ago OP

Mr. Summers, line one is for you.... Moostache 5 hrs ago #1

He needs to rebuild his beach house and go the fuck away Prairie Gates 5 hrs ago #2

How is he planning to "repair the relationships" with the young girls he raped? erronis 5 hrs ago #3

Has he been accused of rape? RockCreek 4 hrs ago #4

I hope you are just being a devil's advocate. Has anyone in the trump/epstein world been formally accused? erronis 4 hrs ago #5

I have not heard of him being named. RockCreek 3 hrs ago #6

More from The Guardian RockCreek 3 hrs ago #7

Moostache

(10,926 posts)

1. Mr. Summers, line one is for you....

Reply to RockCreek (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 08:05 PM

5 hrs ago

LINE ONE: FUCK YOU LARRY, YOU PIECE OF DISGUSTING SHIT. EVERYTHING YOU EVER DID IN THIS LIFE IS SHIT STAINED AND TAINTED BY YOUR ACTIONS. DISAPPEAR SCUMBAG AND TAKE ANYONE ELSE YOU KNOW WAS IN ON IT WITH YOU.

No redemption is possible for these crimes and actions. Rot in hell you filthy son of a bitch (and EVERYONE else involved or aware of the circumstances and activities going on)...

Prairie Gates

(6,841 posts)

2. He needs to rebuild his beach house and go the fuck away

Reply to RockCreek (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 08:08 PM

5 hrs ago

If he were to take a long walk off a short pier, well, that would work too.

erronis

(21,972 posts)

3. How is he planning to "repair the relationships" with the young girls he raped?

Reply to RockCreek (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 08:15 PM

5 hrs ago

Entitled rich white man talk.

RockCreek

(1,163 posts)

4. Has he been accused of rape?

Reply to erronis (Reply #3)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 08:34 PM

4 hrs ago

erronis

(21,972 posts)

5. I hope you are just being a devil's advocate. Has anyone in the trump/epstein world been formally accused?

Reply to RockCreek (Reply #4)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 08:53 PM

4 hrs ago

Not being in the legal or law enforcement world, I'd guess a formal accusation of rape and it's recording by the local authorities would be necessary.

Unless you think that all of these under-age women were consensually agreeing to have some gross older man have sex with her, then it means rape to me.

Please defend your assertion that this might not be rape.

RockCreek

(1,163 posts)

6. I have not heard of him being named.

Reply to erronis (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 09:19 PM

3 hrs ago

Sex with a minor is rape
No question there. And sexualized activity with them is sexual assault.
I just don't recall seeing his name as someone YET accused.

RockCreek

(1,163 posts)

7. More from The Guardian

Reply to RockCreek (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 09:42 PM

3 hrs ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/17/larry-summers-jeffrey-epstein

exerpt:
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 said to 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.”

A senior Trump administration official told Politico that institutions should end their association with Summers, given the relationship he had with Epstein, who referred to himself in one November 2018 message as Summers’ “wing man".

“It’s shocking that Larry Summers remains a paid contributor to Bloomberg News, on the board of OpenAI and tenured at Harvard,” the anonymous source told Politico. “What more revelations about him and his “wing man” will it take for institutions to cut him loose? The British government immediately sacked their ambassador to the US over much less.”

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