Larry Summers at the New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, in 2019. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Former treasury secretary steps away to ‘rebuild trust’ after severe backlash but will continue teaching Harvard classes
The Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers said he would be stepping back from public life after documents released by the House oversight committee revealed email exchanges between Summers and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who called himself Summers’ “wing man”.
Politico reported on Monday that Summers, a former treasury secretary, expressed deep regret for past messages with Epstein.
“I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused,” he told Politico in a statement.
“I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr Epstein. While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”
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Besides Summers, the emails released last week revealed how Epstein maintained contact with other business executives, reporters, academics and political players despite his 2008 guilty plea for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
“For decades, Larry Summers has demonstrated his attraction to serving the wealthy and well-connected, but his willingness to cozy up to a convicted sex offender demonstrates monumentally bad judgment,” Warren said to CNN.
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A billboard in Times Square calls for the release of the Epstein files on July 23, 2025 in New York City. [Adam Gray/Getty Images]
US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Sunday that a foreign government may be pressuring President Donald Trump to keep Jeffrey Epstein files hidden, specifically questioning Israel’s potential involvement with the late sex offender, Anadolu reports.
“I think the question that many Americans are asking” is whether Epstein was working for Israel, Greene told CNN, citing emails released by the House Oversight Committee showing his ties to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
“We saw him making business deals with them, also business deals that involved the Israeli government and seems to have led into their intel agencies,” the Georgia Republican said.
Asked if she was accusing Israel of pushing Trump to cover up the files, Greene said she was questioning “any foreign government” but confirmed Israel “in particular.”
Greene, a longtime loyalist, has criticized the president and her party’s leadership in recent weeks.
Greene said her conflict with Trump stems entirely from her push for Epstein file transparency.
“Unfortunately, it has all come down to the Epstein files, and that is shocking,” she said, adding Trump’s remarks have been “hurtful,” particularly calling her a “traitor.”
“Those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger,” Greene said.
“I believe the country deserves transparency in these files,” she said.
Greene denied Trump’s assertion that she criticized him because he discouraged her from running for Senate or Georgia governor.
“That is absolutely not true. Actually, I never had a conversation at all with the president about running for Senate or running for Georgia,” she said, adding she decided independently not to pursue those positions.
Greene said she hopes for reconciliation with Trump. “I certainly hope that we can make up,” she said, noting she speaks for her side.
Trump on Friday officially withdrew his endorsement of Greene, calling her “wacky” and a “Republican in name only (RINO)” on social media after she joined a bipartisan petition to compel the Justice Department to release remaining Epstein files.
He said he would support any challenger who wants to take Greene’s seat in Georgia in the 2026 midterms.
Trump has dismissed the Epstein files issue as a “hoax” concocted by Democrats, while the White House worked to prevent a House vote demanding full file release.
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The protest group Led by Donkeys projected an image of US President Donald Trump with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the side of Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2025 ahead of Trump’s state visit. (Photo: @supertanskiii/screenshot/X)
“We’re constantly told, you know, we need to see peaceful protests,” said one organizer. “Well, here’s a peaceful protest.”
The leaders of the UK-based protest group Led By Donkeys said Wednesday that four of its members remained under arrest for displaying images of US President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the side of Windsor Castle ahead of Trump’s second state visit to the United Kingdom.
The widely available images were accompanied by a narration discussing Trump and Epstein’s friendship, as well as pictures of Epstein’s victims, police reports, and news reports about the case.
Trump began his visit, on which he’ll meet with King Charles and other members of the royal family as well as Prime Minister Keir Starmer, amid growing scrutiny of the US Department of Justice’s decision not to release files related to the Epstein case as well as of the release of a letter the president reportedly sent to Epstein containing dialogue between the two men about a “wonderful secret” they shared.
The White House has denied the letter is authentic and Trump has claimed he was unaware of Epstein’s criminal activities during his friendship with him.
Police said they arrested the four Led by Donkeys members on suspicion of “malicious communications” after they displayed the “unauthorized projection.”
A spokesperson for Led By Donkeys toldThe Guardianthe group has previously displayed “25 or 30 projections” without organizers being arrested.
“Often the police come along and we have a chat to them, and they even have a laugh with us and occasionally tell us to not do it,” the spokesperson said. “But no one’s ever been arrested before, so it is ridiculous that four of our guys have been arrested for malicious communications.”
“Forgive the cliche, but it is rather Orwellian for a piece of journalism, which raises questions about our guest’s relationship with America’s most notorious child sex trafficker, to lead to arrests,” they added.
King Charles’ brother, Prince Andrew, has also been accused of sexually abusing teenage girls during his friendship with Epstein. He settled out of court with Virginia Giuffre, who sued him for allegedly abusing her, in 2022, after being stripped of his royal patronages.
While the projection was taken down and the protesters detained, Trump is unlikely to escape condemnation from members of the British public during his visit.
The group Everyone Hates Elon, which has previously displayed messages denouncing billionaire Trump ally and megadonor Elon Musk at bus stops around London, also unfurled a banner at Windsor Castle showing a picture of Trump and Epstein.
Protesters gathered in London Wednesday for a “Trump Not Welcome” march from Portland Place to Parliament Square, with some displaying the “Trump baby balloon” that became familiar after the president’s first official visit to the UK in 2018, as well as balloons showing a caricature of Vice President JD Vance.
Demonstrators carried signs reading, “No to racism” and “Stop arming Israel,” among other slogans.
“We do not want our government to trade away our democracy and decency,” Zoe Gardner, a spokesperson for the Stop Trump Coalition, told The Washington Post Wednesday.
A rallygoer named Alena Ivanova told the outlet that “there’s a reason” Trump is spending much of his visit outside of the nation’s capital, meeting with Starmer at his country estate and staying at Windsor Castle.
“People on the streets will say what our government seems unable to: Donald Trump is not welcome here,” said Ivanova.
Observers in the UK view the invitation for a state visit as an attempt to appeal to the president as he threatens the country with tariffs and an end to aid for Ukraine.
“We want our government to show some backbone,” Gardner told the BBC, “and have a little bit of pride and represent that huge feeling of disgust at Donald Trump’s politics in the UK.”
The Led By Donkeys spokesperson told The Guardian that the arrest of the four organizers “says a lot more about the policing of Trump’s visit than it does about what we did.”
More than 1,600 police officers have been deployed to respond to protests while Trump is in the UK.
“We’re constantly told, you know, we need to see peaceful protests. Well, here’s a peaceful protest,” said the spokesperson. “We projected a piece of journalism on to a wall and now people have been arrested for malicious communications.”
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Keir Starmer picked Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador in Washington, DC. (Photo: Carl Court / Alamy)
Britain’s ambassador to the US asked the convicted paedophile to help vet an Israeli consultant in London.
Lord Peter Mandelson asked Jeffrey Epstein to assist with a background check on an Israeli political consultant, Declassified can reveal.
The Labour party grandee and lobbyist – who is now Britain’s ambassador to the US – has always denied having “any kind of professional or business relationship with Epstein in any form”.
But leaked messages show Mandelson contacted him from his work email address in 2013, more than five years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor.
Mandelson signed off the email in his capacity as chairman of Global Counsel, the multi-million pound lobbying firm that he co-founded.
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It is not clear whether he got a response, but records show that Epstein forwarded the message to Barak’s personal email address.
The correspondence is contained in a huge leak of Barak’s emails, published by a file-sharing website, Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS).
