Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein tapped Bill Clintons ex-press secretary Joe Lockhart for PR advice off Larry Summers recommendation

Dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein tapped Bill Clinton’s former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart — calling him “lockhard” in what looked like an email typo — for help with damage control over a widening sex-trafficking scandal in 2015, according to documents released by the Justice Department and reviewed by The Post.Lockhart — who served as White House press secretary from 1998 to 2000, fielding the media firestorm over Clinton’s salacious affair with Monica Lewinsky — was introduced to Epstein by Clinton’s ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, according to the “Epstein files” released by the Justice Department and the House Oversight Committee.“I’d like to talk to lockhard if you think he is smart,” Epstein wrote Summers in an email exchange on Jan.25, 2015, misspelling the crisis PR expert’s surname.At the time, Epstein was engulfed in a PR crisis over explosive 2014 court filings by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, which accused the late financier of running a sex-trafficking ring and keeping her as a “sex slave” for rich and powerful men, including Britain’s now-former Prince Andrew.In the back-and-forth with Summers, Epstein griped that the media coverage was “still an onslaught but so preposterous that it becomes more easily seen as a farce,” according to the emails.In response, Summers recommended Lockhart, noting that he had previously assisted Bill Clinton and former CIA Director David Petraeus.“Capable and experienced.

Calm.Was Clinton press secretary,” Summers said of Lockhart, who went on to land top spin doctor gigs with Facebook and the NFL.The now-ex Harvard University professor then introduced the two men in a separate, blank email later on Jan.

25, 2015 with the subject line “Connecting the two of you.”There is no evidence in the document dump that Epstein ever signed a contract with Lockhart, but emails show they promptly made arrangements to talk on the phone.Lockhart told The Post on Wednesday he nev...