Overview
- Larry Summers said he will withdraw from public engagements and accept responsibility for continuing communications with Jeffrey Epstein, while maintaining his Harvard teaching duties.
- House Democrats released about 20,000 Epstein messages that include extensive Summers–Epstein exchanges spanning 2013 through 2019.
- The correspondence shows Summers asking Epstein for personal advice about extramarital relationships, referencing a Chinese professor and a student, and requesting a donation tied to his wife's Harvard research, with Epstein calling himself his “wing man.”
- Faculty voices and Democratic politicians, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, are urging Harvard to remove Summers from the classroom, and the university has not commented.
- Congress is preparing a vote on publishing additional Justice Department files as Republicans and Trump push for full disclosure of the remaining records.