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The recent release of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files has once again pulled back the curtain on the cozy networks of America’s elite, revealing fresh emails between former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Epstein in which Summers solicited personal and romantic advice long after Epstein’s crimes were public. Those exchanges are ugly to read: Summers appears to treat Epstein as a confidant on matters that should never have involved a convicted sex offender, and the revelation is rightly shameful for any public figure.
Beyond the cringe-worthy details, the emails show Summers forwarding a mentee’s private correspondence and even using Epstein in a matchmaking role, with Epstein calling himself Summers’s “wing man.” These are not merely social faux pas; they demonstrate a blindness to basic judgment and boundaries that every parent, teacher, and patriot expects from public servants and university leaders.
The fallout was immediate: Summers announced he would step back from public commitments, resigned from the OpenAI board, and lost other affiliations as institutions rushed to distance themselves. His statement that he is “deeply ashamed” and will “rebuild trust” is the minimum response, but words are not enough—Americans deserve a full accounting of how deep these ties ran and whether any institutional favors or access were traded.
Conservative commentators and patriots across the country, led by voices like Glenn Beck, are demanding exactly that transparency — not to pursue partisan bloodletting, but to hold elites accountable and to ensure the same rules apply to everybody. If the left’s power brokers are going to lecture the country about virtue and justice, the public has every right to see the records that expose whether their actions matched their rhetoric.
Harvard has reopened a probe into Summers’s connections, and the university now faces the uncomfortable task of answering how Epstein retained influence inside its walls for so long. This should be a moment of reckoning for America’s elite institutions; they must either demonstrate tough, consistent standards or acknowledge that their moralizing was a cover for a double standard. Families who send their children to these schools deserve better than cover-ups and half-measures.
Let’s be clear: there is no credible evidence that Summers committed criminal acts in connection with Epstein, but the pattern of access, favors, and influence is exactly the sort of ethical rot that corrodes public trust and allows predators to operate. Conservatives can and should call for due process while also demanding institutional accountability — a healthy republic requires both justice and transparency.
President Trump and Republican lawmakers who pushed for the release of the Epstein files were right to demand sunlight on this swampy business, and Americans should insist on the swift, full release of any remaining records that show how power was used and by whom. Enough with the elite immunity; hardworking patriots deserve answers and reforms that prevent a repeat of this shameful episode.
