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Swede

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Thu Nov 13, 2025, 09:58 PM Nov 13

After Trump's disaster in Helsinki, Larry Summers texted Epstein asking if Putin had compromat on Trump. [View all]

Let me be clear about who Larry Summers is. This isn’t some conspiracy theorist with a blog. This is the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton. Former president of Harvard. Former director of the National Economic Council under Obama. One of the most respected economists in the country. A man with access to the highest levels of government, finance, and academia.
And on July 17, 2018, the day after Trump’s disastrous press conference with Putin in Helsinki, Summers sent Epstein an email. “Do the Russians have stuff on Trump?” he wrote. “Today was appalling even by his standards.”
Think about what that means. Summers didn’t ask a government official. He didn’t ask a intelligence analyst. He didn’t ask a journalist covering the Russia beat. He asked a convicted sex offender who was already a registered predator when this email was sent.
Epstein’s response is almost as interesting as the question. He called Trump “totally predictable” and said he’d explain by phone. He wrote that Trump thinks “he has charmed his adversary” but “has no idea of the symbolism. He has no idea of most things.”

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