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