Jeffrey Epstein gave ex-Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers advice about women, emails show
A top economic official in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations sought advice from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein about his relationship with an unidentified woman, bombshell emails released by the House Oversight Committee show.Lawrence Summers, who served as Clinton’s final Treasury secretary and director of the National Economic Council under Obama, routinely picked Epstein’s twisted mind about how to interact with the woman, who apparently lived in London at the time of the exchanges.
On March 16, 2019, fewer than four months before Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, Summers wrote that he and the woman had “talked on the phone.”“Then [she said] ‘I can’t talk later’.Dint [sic] think I can talk tomorrow,” the former president of Harvard University continued in the correspondence tucked in 20,000 pages of documents made public by the panel Wednesday.
“I said what are you up to.She said ‘I’m busy’.
I said awfully coy u [sic] are,” Summers complained.“And then I said.
Did u [sic] really rearrange the weekend we were going to be together because guy number 3 was coming’.She said no his schedule changed after we changed our plans.
I said ok I got to go call me when u feel like it.“Tone was not of good feeling,” the now-70-year-old summed up.
“I dint [sic] want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits.”“[S]hes smart,” Epstein told Summers in a responding email 11 minutes later.“[M]aking you pay for past errors.
[I]gnore the daddy im [sic] going to go out with the motorcycle guy, you reacted well..annoyed shows caring., no whining showed strentgh [sic].”Epstein, 66, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell 147 days later, on Aug.
10, 2019, while awaiting trial.The March 2019 exchange was not the only time Epstein and the married Summers discussed the fairer sex.In November 2018, Summers forwarded Epstein an email from a different woman with ...