Summers-Epstein Email Exchange Sparks Controversy: 'Don't Repeat This' Line Reveals Clandestine Relationship
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A stunning email exchange between former Harvard President Lawrence Summers and convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein has shed new light on their secret relationship. The House Oversight Committee Democrats released previously redacted communications on Wednesday, which included the cryptic line 'DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT.' The phrase, which appears in an email discussing Donald Trump, women, and wars, has sparked widespread speculation about the nature of their relationship. Summers, who served as President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006 and U.S. Treasury Secretary from 1999 to 2001, had a long-standing relationship with Epstein. Despite Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor, he continued to provide millions in donations to Harvard and was granted unusual access to campus. The two men met multiple times between 2013 and 2016 for dinners and fund-raising discussions, and their correspondence reveals a complex web of business negotiations, personal conversations, and confessional exchanges. The email cache, which spans at least seven years, includes a 2016 thread in which Summers expressed his desire to distance himself from the Trump administration. 'Spend zero effort on anything about me w trump,' he wrote, citing concerns about Trump's approach to conflict of interest and his relationships with world leaders. Epstein, however, continued to maintain a close relationship with Summers, even setting up a meeting between Summers and Karim Wade, a former Senegalese minister living in exile in Qatar. When Summers expressed his confusion about the meeting, Epstein advised him to maintain a certain distance from certain relationships 'at least in public.' However, Summers himself failed to heed this advice, and his association with Epstein has become a major source of regret. 'I have great regrets in my life,' Summers said in a previous statement. 'As I have said before, my association with Jeffrey Epstein was a major error of judgment.'
