Nauseated Harvard students slam professor Larry Summers as he starts class admitting to his Epstein ‘shame’

Larry Summers opened his Harvard lecture by confessing his shame over his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein after his emails with him became public.

One video In the video recorded by a student in the lecture hall on Tuesday, Summers spoke candidly about the debate that has intensified in recent days.

Former US Treasury Secretary Summers recently resigned from the OpenAI board, and Harvard announced it was investigating his connections to Epstein.

Addressing the room at the beginning of his Political Economy of Globalization lecture, the 70-year-old said: ‘Some of you will have seen my declaration of shame, my remorse, for what I did in communicating with Mr. Epstein.

‘I have said that I will withdraw from public activities for a while, but I think it is very important to fulfill my teaching obligations and so with your permission I will go forward and talk about the material.’

The TikTok’s caption read: ‘And in the published emails, she asked Epstein for advice about a young woman he was pressuring……just disgusting.’

Summers’ remarks come after a House committee last week released emails revealing years of personal correspondence with Epstein; Among these correspondences was that Epstein received sex and love advice from the pedophile, his “wingman”.

The disturbing emails include Summers asking for Epstein’s advice on dating a younger woman while married.

Summers also resigned from OpenAI’s board this week, citing his decision to step away from public commitments.

In email correspondence between 2013 and 2019, Summers and Epstein frequently shared their thoughts on current events and politics, while also touching on the married economics professor’s love life. (Image: Epstein smiles at Summers, front right)

Summers exchanged emails with Epstein as late as July 5, 2019, just one day before Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.

In email correspondence between 2013 and 2019, Summers and Epstein frequently shared their thoughts on current events and politics, while also touching on the married economics professor’s love life.

Harvard, where Summers is a professor and former president, has since launched an investigation into her relationship with Epstein.

Epstein never attended Harvard as a student and did not have a college degree; He enrolled at Cooper Union and New York University, but dropped out of both without graduating.

However, thanks to six-figure donations and the support of several faculty members, he gained special treatment, including his own desk, a phone line, and a fellowship position in psychology for which he was eventually deemed unqualified even after sex offender allegations emerged.

The emails reveal Summers complained to the now-disgraced financier that he felt like a “friend with benefits” in a relationship with a woman who dumped him in 2019, and asked him for tips on how to respond to her messages.

This was long after Epstein had confessed to child sex crimes in 2008, and Harvard had already stopped accepting donations from him the previous year in light of the allegations.

The emails led Sen. Elizabeth Warren to warn Harvard to cut ties with Summers, the former president of the Ivy League schools.

Professor Summers served as Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton and as director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama. He also advised Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

Warren told CNN that she believes Summers “cannot be trusted” with young college students, given his long-standing friendship with Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee last week released scores of Epstein emails, including those sent by Larry Summers, one of Harvard’s most distinguished professors (pictured)

Harvard launches investigation into Summers

Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, exchanged emails with Summers until the day before his arrest on sex trafficking charges.

Summers is married to Elisa New, a professor of American Literature at Harvard. It’s unclear whether they had an open relationship or whether he had been cheating on his partner for 20 years.

In a March 2019 email, Summers complained to Epstein that she was concerned he might not receive sexual rewards for his attention to a woman.

‘I don’t want to participate in a gift-giving contest as a useless friend,’ he wrote.

Summers analyzed his transaction with the woman in classical economic terms, weighing how he could maximize profit from what she gave.

Epstein praised the desperate professor for his efforts and wrote that not “whining” to the woman “showed strength.”

The economics professor then lamented that the woman had abandoned plans with him for another man she “really liked” but was “unsuitable as a partner.”

She told Epstein she couldn’t criticize him for it because of power dynamics and that he had canceled in the past due to ‘family and work constraints.’

‘Should I wait for him to call?’ asked the sex offender, suggesting that alternatively he could tell the woman she had “exhausted 80 percent of her debt” by getting her to change her plans.

According to the Harvard Crimson, Epstein also referred to himself as Summers’ “wingman” in some of his emails.

Summers analyzed his transaction with the woman in classic economic terms, weighing how he could maximize his profits from his transaction with Epstein.

In November 2018, Summers also forwarded an email to Epstein from a woman seeking his advice on what to write.

“I think it’s probably appropriate to not respond for a while,” Summers wrote, according to CNN.

Epstein said in part, “he’s already starting to look needy 🙂 nice.”

Last year, in October 2017, Summers angrily told Epstein that men could be banned from a social media site or think tank for “hitting on a few women 10 years ago.”

Summers told The Harvard Crimson on Wednesday that he regrets his friendship with Epstein.

‘I have great regrets in my life. “As I have said before, my relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was a huge error of judgement,” he said.

He also resigned from his position at OpenAI this week.

OpenAI’s board said in its own statement: ‘Larry has decided to resign from the OpenAI Board and we respect his decision. We appreciate his many contributions and the perspective he brings to the Board.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to Summers for comment.