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Jeffrey Epstein Fallout: Larry Summers Steps Down Amid Email Revelations · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. One of Jeffrey Epstein's closest friends, one of
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his closest confidants, was, no doubt, Larry Summers. And up
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until this point, Larry Summers had been able to navigate
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the choppy waters that have been caused by the Epstein
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malstrom and he's been able to keep himself afloat. Well,
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that all ended today as it's been announced that Larry
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Summers is resigning as the university professor at Harvard. Now,
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his relationship with Epstein isn't something that is, you know,
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brand new. We've known about Larry Summers and his relationship
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with Epstein for a very long time. But now with
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all the emails backing up what people were saying, his
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denials become bull And I think this is the pattern
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that we're seeing time and time again. All these people
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that denied their relationships with Epstein are all being out
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as liars, and that includes people like Elon Musk as well.
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You know, he has a real big mouth, doesn't he. Oh,
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I'll pay for the lawyer of anyone who wants to
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come out and name so and so. Yeah, sure, buddy,
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probably some kind of syh op to get information about
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people who are making allegations so you and your friends
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can quash them. And I hate to be cynical, but
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I'm only half joking when I say that, Like, does
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anybody really trust people like Larry Summers or Elon Musk?
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I know I don't, And now that the receipts are
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here to back up what people have said, Larry Summers
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has no choice but to tuck tail and run. And
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guess what, I don't feel bad about it. I don't
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feel bad for one second. This dude knew exactly what
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was going on for all these years, never came forward,
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never offered himself up to the investigators to say, hey,
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look I was around Jeffrey. I might have seen something.
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Did he do any of that? No? Right, So why
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shouldn't Larry Summers lose his job? I mean, that's what
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they're saying about all the young girls. Oh well, she
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was a trafficker. Doesn't matter that she was groomed when
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she was fourteen, she became eighteen and she kept doing it.
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Isn't that what they say? Isn't that the argument that's
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being made by the same people who think that we
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should be mad and sad that someone like Larry Summers
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ended up losing their job. As they sit here and
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try and call people traffickers and all kinds of hainiush
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shit without any context, without any nuance, it's straight up absurd.
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Imagine being more critical of the people who were abused
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than the people that actually did the abusing or the enabling,
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because for some people, those are the folks who are
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the actual victims. Because you know, this is all just
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a moral panic and it's all over blown, and the
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evidence they have to back that up is exactly none. Meanwhile,
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on the other side of the argument, how many people
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have paid settlements, how many people have lost their jobs,
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how many people have been arrested, But sure keep telling
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us it's all over blown and there's nothing to see here.
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I want you to take note of all the people
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doing that that way, later on down the road, we
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can give them the kind of ball breaking that they
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deserve for being so wrong when it comes to this story.
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And you know what, a lot of those people that
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are Epstein denihilists. I think the reason that they're acting
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so contrarian is because they missed it. They had a
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blind spot to the story, and now they want to
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play it down because they weren't there from the jump,
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so of course, since they missed it, it really can't
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be that big of a story, and that leads to
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them trying to demean it, and of course that always
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ends up with them attacking the survivors. But these institutions,
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these lawsuits, tell us a whole different story, don't they
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headlined Larry Summers to resign as Harvard University professor amid
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Epstein fallout. This article was authored by Daniel Arkin. Larry Summers,
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the former Treasury Secretary and noted economist, announced Wednesday he
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plans to resign from his role as a tenured professor
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at Harvard University, a move that comes amid growing scrutiny
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of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mind you,
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he's tenured, so you got to think that he's facing
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a lot of pressure to make this move. He doesn't
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have to. As a tenured professor, you have a lot
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of room to do whatever you want. But he understands
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that this is a bad look and there's no way
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to defend it, so he's going to slink away. Unfortunately,
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the people that defend him and people like him, They
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don't have that much humility. Imagine being bereft of humility
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to a level that you surpass. Larry Summers, I have
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made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship
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at the end of this academic year. Summers said in
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a statement. I will always be grateful to the thousands
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of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach
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and work with coming to Harvard as a graduate student
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fifty years ago. Yeah, great, we love it. Good for you, buddy,
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you had a nice, storied career. How many of those
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years were spent in the company of people like Jeffrey Epstein.
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I know not the kind of question he wants to hear,
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and far be it from me to reign on his parade.
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But here we are, all those years that you were
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friends with Epstein, he was actively abusing these girls. He
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was actively stealing money from the citizens of the United
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States and elsewhere. So yeah, you should step down, and
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you should be embarrassed, and anybody defending you, they should
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be embarrassed too. But you would have to have some
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kind of moral compass for that to happen, And all
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that really matters to them? Is engagement? Right? Oh, let's
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be contrarian. Let's try and drive some clicks. There gotta
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be another side of the story. No, there's not. I'm
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sorry to tell you there's not another side to this story. Okay,
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there's one side. These scumbags got away with it for
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all these years, never an investigation, never a real look
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at what's going on. And now that the bill is due,
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like I always tell you, none of them want to pay. Well,
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guess what. Nobody wants to pay the bill when it
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comes in. Sure, had a good time running up that
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bill though, right, no problem running the check up. But
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now that you got to pay, Oh, you left your
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wallet in the car. We should feel sorry for you.
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Somebody should pick up the bill, anybody, but you, Well
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guess what? Not this time time to reach into that
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pocket and pay up. Free of formal responsibility. As president
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and a retired professor, I look forward in time to
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engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of
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global economic issues. He added, Yo, I got bad news
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for you, mister Summers. I don't think anybody wants to
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hear what you have to say. Nobody wants financial advice
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from Jeffrey Epstein's Pale Summers also resigned from his leadership
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position as co director of the Masavar Romney Center for
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Business and Government. Harvard University spokesman Jason Newton confirmed in
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an email summers connection to Epstein was long established, but
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a cash of emails released by the Justice Department last
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year showed the two men were closer than had been
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publicly known. Not true, I mean, I guess publicly known,
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but we all knew. People who followed the story, you knew,
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So all these things that are coming as a shock
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to people, this is the stuff we were screaming from
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mountaintops back in twenty nineteen, you know, when everybody who
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thinks this story is so important now was ignoring it,
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calling people like me conspiracy theorists. You know I'm talking
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about there's a whole lot of people out there who
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are now talking about this story who didn't give one
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damn about it when it was happening, but now they
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feel like they can score political points or whatever, so
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all of a sudden they're some kind of crusader. I
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see you too. And there's a whole lot of people
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that are talking about this story that really don't care
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about justice one way or the other. They care about
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scoring points politically, and unfortunately that feeds right into what
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these people want. They want confusion, they want chaos, and
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they want everybody at each other's throat. So nobody's paying
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attention to the bullshit they're up to. The two men
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communicated as recently as twenty nineteen, more than a decade
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after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
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They continue to correspond until July fifth, twenty nineteen, a
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day before Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking Miners.
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Summers has been on leave from his teaching duties since
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November while Harvard investigates links between faculty members and Epstein,
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who died in federal custody in twenty nineteen while awaiting
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prosecution on sex trafficking charges. So, in other words, they're
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doing their investigation and they probably found everything that we
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already know and more, And whoever's in charge over at
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Harvard probably went to mister Summers and said, bro, you're done.
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That's it. We'll give you a chance to resign. But
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besides that, we got you. There's a lot of evidence
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here and you were an absolute douche, so you gotta go. Now,
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that's my guess, right, They got this investigation, the investigation
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kicks off, and then all of a sudden, mister tenured
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professor is just going to resign out of the blue. Okay.
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The celebrated economist served as Harvard's president from two thousand
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and one to two thousand and six, before he was
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named a university professor, the school's highest faculty rank. Summers
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previously said he planned to retreat from public commitments, including
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his position on the board of directors at open AI,
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following the House Oversight Committee's release of more than twenty
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thousand documents that included his extensive email correspondence with Epstein.
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I'm deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain
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they have caused, Somers said in the statement November seventeenth.
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I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue
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communicating with mister Epstein, not just communicating, opening doors for him,
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providing him with a veneer of respectability, and then Jeffrey
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Epstein went on to continue to abuse people. That's a
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big deal, And I'm sure if it was your daughter
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who was abused, you'd probably feel the same way. In
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one set of email, Summers, who has been married to
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academic Elisa Knew since two thousand and five, sought Epstein's
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advice on his romantic interest in a woman he described
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as a mentee. Epstein in turn described himself as a
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pretty good wingman for Summers. In another, Summers lamented that
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men who had on women may face repercussions in the
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modern workplace. Oh god forbid, you can't be a creep
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at work. That must be rough. Huh. Imagine having to
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keep your hands and your dumb ass comments to yourself
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must be tough. Man, hard life, very difficult life for
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these guys. The scrutiny on the email records led to
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other revelations, including that Summers and new made a brief
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visit of less than a day to Epstein's private island
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in the Caribbean during their honeymoon in two thousand and five.
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According to a statement from Summer spokesman Stephen Goldberg, have
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you noticed that everybody says they go to the island
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for like an hour. Who the fuck goes to an
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island for an hour? You don't even go to the
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local pub for an hour. But sure I went to
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a whole ass island for one hour, and then I
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was back on my boat like a good little boy.
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If you believe that you're dumb as fuck. It would
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not have been easy for Harvard d Al Summers, who
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was President Bill Clinton's Treasury secretary and a top economic
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advisor to President Barack Obama. Somemmrs. Tenured position effectively gave
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them a form of a permanent employment in academia. And folks,
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this is why you got to get out of that
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right left mentality. It's both sides. Both sides were corrupt here.
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Both sides protected Epstein, but neither side wants to take
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responsibility for the fact that they've been right in the
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middle of it from the beginning. So of course that
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leads to more distrust and more people thinking that it's
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politically motivated when it's obviously not. Look, I can't control
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anybody else right, but here on this podcast, I assure
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you every single one of these dirty, rotten pieces of
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garbage who get caught up in this, they're on the clock.
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I don't care what your politics are, I don't care
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what you look like. I don't care. We're from the
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same city, we have the same friends. I don't give
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a flying buck, homie. Why were you with Jeffrey Epstein
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after you knew he was diddling kids? Why didn't you
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go to the police and talk to them and tell
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them what you know? So now that you didn't do
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any of that and we had to catch you red handed,
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I don't want to hear your excuses. I don't want
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to hear why, I don't want to hear how it happened,
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and I certainly don't want to hear sorry, because that
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ship sailed a long fucking time ago. Harvard's provist office
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says on its web page that professor's can be removed
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only for grave misconduct or neglect of duty by the
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Harvard Corporation, the school's highest governing body. It was not
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clear whether Summer's conduct meant that standard. Oh it did
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they let him say face? That's what this is. This
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is the corporate way of letting people say face. The
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release of the emails royaled Harvard in interviews last year
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with NBC News and Harvard's student run newspaper, The Crimson,
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a group of faculty members and students to cried summers
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correspondence with Epstein. Epstein is no longer alive, but his
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legacy is alive and well, and his friends are still
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in high places, Harvard undergraduate student Lola Jay d Assentis
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told NBC News. In recent months, Harvard faced mounting pressure
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to cut ties with Summers, including from Senator Elizabeth Warren,
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who once taught at Harvard. Boy, they have all the
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geniuses teach there. Huh. Imagine sending your kid to Harvard
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for all those fazzules, and you know that all these
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idiots are the teachers there, might as well send them
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to community college. Right If he had so little ability
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to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein, even after all that
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was publicly known about Epstein's sex offenses involving underage girls,
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then Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation's politicians, policymakers,
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and institutions, or teach a generation of students at Harvard
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or anywhere else, Warren said last year. Summer's resignation closes
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a chapter on his relationship with an educational institution where
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he received his PhD in economics in nineteen eighty two.
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The following year, when Summers was just twenty eight, he
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became one of the university's youngest ever tenured professors. Look,
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I'm sure that Larry Summers is a sharp guy. Sure's
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a smarty when it comes to book stuff. Sure is
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a dumbass when it comes to life decisions. Summer's tenure
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at the top of Harvard was often clouded by controversy.
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He faced fierce controversy and pushback after giving remarks in
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two thousand and five at a closed door economic conference
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speculating that women may lack an intrinsic aptitude for science
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and engineering. This guy loved women, though. Just let him
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tell you. Nothing to see here. Women weren't just a
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commodity to him. Oh wait, they were, got it. He
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apologized and insisted his remarks had been misconstrued. The noise
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ultimately became too intense to surmount. He resigned from the
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presidency in February of two thousand and six. Four months later,
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Summers was appointed to the faculty again as a university professor,
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a distinction afforded to only a handful of luminaries. He
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held that title for nearly twenty years. Well, guess what
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not anymore? And I don't care for one minute. I
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don't feel bad. I don't have any empathy for him,
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and I don't care about his reputation. Why should I
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care about his reputation if he doesn't, because if he
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cared about his reputation, well, he wouldn't have been breaking
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bread with Jeffrey Epstein. So if Larry Summers is looking
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for somebody to blame, my advice is take a look
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in the mirror. All the information that goes with this
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