Larry Summers served as Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary during his administration.
While the media and Democrats are focusing on Epstein-related documents in which Donald Trump was mentioned, they seem to be missing some key correspondence that took place between Summers and Epstein long after the disgraced billionaire had been convicted the first time around.
Summers, however, just announced that he is pulling back on his roster of public-facing commitments, now apologizing for his ties to Epstein.
Democrats have done everything they can to make the Epstein controversy all about Trump, even though they are using old information to try and do it.
They also happen to be twisting the narrative quite a bit on this front. GOP Oversight Committee members are now calling out Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-CA) for purposely misleading people about the nature of Trump’s relationship with Epstein.
Their memo stated, "Unfortunately, during this investigation, Oversight Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-CA), have intentionally mischaracterized witness testimony and selectively released information with targeted redactions in an effort to create another hoax involving President Trump.”
It continued, "When the Majority released the full set of documents, Democrats claimed that this transparency was meant to ‘disorient’ and ‘distract’ from the false narrative they had been attempting to construct about President Trump."
Among the voluminous communications they exchanged over the years, Summers had been trading emails with Epstein over his efforts to woo a mentee.
There was no proof that Epstein set Summers up with the girl, but considering Epstein’s known habits, many are assuming that was the case or that the woman was much younger than Summers, leaning into Epstein’s area of expertise.
Summers, also the former president of Harvard University, has now apologized for his conduct and is hoping to slink into the shadows. He stated, "I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused.” He continued, "I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein.”
Although he is no longer the president of Harvard, he continues to teach there, serves as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, is a paid columnist with Bloomberg News, and is a board member at OpenAI. He will continue teaching, but he will step back from all other public commitments now that he has been exposed as a close Epstein ally.
This week, Trump came out in support of the Epstein files being released by the House, but there is something a little funny going on here. Trump has the authority to declassify all this material and release it, but he is choosing to allow this all to go through Congress instead. Why this smells funny is that Trump has also called for the GOP to investigate Democrats' ties to Epstein.
This is a bit off because any files related to an open investigation cannot be released, and the whispers I am hearing are that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) may not put the document release petition on the floor, or he may work to ensure that the measure will not get the 60 required votes to pass.
One Republican senator suggested that will not be the case, but he would not speak on the record. He stated, “There’s one thought process [of], yeah, just let them have a vote in the House and let it languish in the Senate. I don’t know why anybody thinks that would be a logical conclusion after the president said go ahead and vote for it. How can you give House members a vote and not give Senate members a vote?”
I won’t believe the records are going to be released until I see them. But I can tell you this: if Thune plays games in the Senate, it will not help him, as Democrats would assuredly pounce, saying this was the president's plan all along to keep the materials hidden. The sooner those documents are released, the sooner they are out of the news cycle. That is, unless this was Trump’s plan all along, and Democrats just walked right into it.
