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In the latest blow to Democrats from the recent ‘Epstein files’ released by House Republicans, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced that he’s stepping back from public commitments after new documents reveal he was asking for Jeffrey Epstein’s advice on how to bang a female mentee behind his wife’s back.
Summers – who was Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary and later president of Harvard University, repeatedly messaged Epstein about a woman codenamed “peril” in 2018 and 2019.
In one January 2019 text exchange, Summers told Epstein that the woman was unlikely to leave him due to his position of power and the professional connections that might come with it – to which Epstein replied, “She is doomed to be with you.”
Jin earned her bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. at Harvard between 2000 and 2009. Based on the messages, she makes no mention of a romantic relationship with Summers – and it’s unclear whether she knew her mentor and the sex offender were discussing her.
In later messages, Summers and Epstein appeared to joke about the possibility that Summers would have sex with her.
In another exchange, Summers and Epstein discussed Summers’ relationship with Jin’s father – a former high-ranked official in the Chinese Communist Party and founding president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which Summers had long been close with.