{"id":9207,"date":"2026-02-03T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:38:11","slug":"first-democrat-casualty-of-epstein-fallo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=9207","title":{"rendered":"First Democrat Casualty Of Epstein Fallo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Harvard president and prominent Democratic economist Larry Summers said<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>he will scale back public engagements after Congress released seven years of emails showing he remained in contact with Jeffrey Epstein long after Epstein\u2019s 2008 conviction<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"436\">The emails, disclosed by the House Oversight Committee,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"436\">show Summers communicating with Epstein until July 5, 2019, one day before Epstein\u2019s arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"436\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"436\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"436\">\n<p data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"872\">The correspondence sparked criticism because it included personal exchanges, including Epstein referring to himself as Summers\u2019 \u201cwing man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"872\">Summers acknowledged the fallout, expressing shame and taking responsibility for what he called \u201cmisguided\u201d decisions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"872\">While he will step back from public commentary, Summers plans to keep his academic and institutional roles at Harvard, the Center for American Progress, Bloomberg, and OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"874\" data-end=\"1027\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Separately, Rep. Jamie Raskin drew criticism for releasing prison emails written by Ghislaine Maxwell, a move her lawyer called a serious abuse of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Harvard president and prominent Democratic economist Larry Summers said &nbsp; &nbsp; he will scale back public engagements after Congress released seven years of emails showing he remained in contact with Jeffrey Epstein long&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9208,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions\/9208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}