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Epstein files: Larry Summers to resign as Harvard professor, reports say
CNBC (Business News) ^ | 25 February 2026 | Dan Mangan

Posted on 02/25/2026 9:01:36 AM PST by zeestephen

Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary who has been dogged by his past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, will resign from teaching at Harvard University by the end of the current academic year, according to reports on Wednesday...Summers previously served as president of Harvard.

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To: zeestephen

Despite what the Democrats are saying, the friends of Epstein were mostly liberals and/or foreigners!


41 posted on 02/25/2026 10:40:26 AM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: All

Based on recently released DOJ documents, hacked emails, and investigative reports from
early 2026, the Israeli intel “honey trap” associated with Jeffrey Epstein is outlined.

Described as an elaborate, high-level, international blackmail operation targeting global elites.....exchanging sexual favors for govt secrets.

The operation used sexual entrapment to create a network of influence, silence, and compliance among politicians, billionaires, and academics. (Politics Today)

Details of the Targeting Strategy: Epstein had plenty of money (maybe US foreign aid tax dollars ostensibly sent to a dependable ally?), and used multiple showstopping resources——private jets, lavish mansions, and a private island—to lure powerful figures, with the goal of creating compromising situations that could be used for leverage.

The “Broker” Role: Reports suggest Epstein acted as a “fixer” who provided young women for sexual encounters with, or to be photographed with, influential individuals to secure loyalty or blackmail them.

Mossad Intelligence Links: Several reports indicate that Epstein’s network was linked to Mossad (Israeli intelligence).

Mossad Connection: Former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe claimed Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell operated a blackmail ring on behalf of Israeli intelligence.

Key Individuals managed the operation with Ghislaine Maxwell, allegedly focused on high-profile figures, including discussions w/ then president Bill Clinton, billionaire Bill Gates, and global elites and officials w/ information to trade for sex.

Methods of Control: sexually available Women were brought in under the guise of “modeling” or “business opportunities,” subsequently becoming dependent on Epstein for housing, money, or visa status. The goal was not just blackmail in a traditional sense, but controlling and influencing elite social networks and geopolitics to benefit the state of Israel. (Politics Today)

These findings suggest that Epstein’s actions were not merely a personal criminal endeavor, but a “systemic failure” and “industrial-scale” operation, designed to exploit the gap between the public respectability and private behavior of powerful figures.


Read more here

www.thebrink.me——Honey Trap: The Global-Wide Sexpionage Behind Epstein...
Feb 9, 2026 — Honey Trap: The Global-Wide Sexpionage Behind the Epstein Files...snip

Politics Today-——Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s honey-trap ...
Feb 13, 2026 — The emails offer a revealing window into the tactics Epstein used to build his network of the rich and powerful, using women and sex...


42 posted on 02/25/2026 10:41:33 AM PST by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.)
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To: zeestephen

Larry Summers is a close friend of the Clintons. That makes him highly suspect of being as criminally slimy as they are. Now we know, he’s just as slimy. Crash and burn you p o s!


43 posted on 02/25/2026 10:45:58 AM PST by drypowder
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To: xp38

😄😄😄😄


44 posted on 02/25/2026 10:55:40 AM PST by madison10
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To: SaxxonWoods

I thought the same.

There is a lot of “excitement” over all of the “mentions.” But without evidence or witnesses there really isn’t much that can happen.

I think the biggest issue was how the incoming administration made such a big deal of out this…then fumbling the release. And now people are crying “conspiracy” because they got a big nothing burger.

Bondi should have recused herself and handed this over to a special assistant who could shepard the process. Her previous involvement with Epstein in FL makes this whole thing look cloudy.

Oh well…

On to the Aliens!


45 posted on 02/25/2026 11:23:00 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: zeestephen; lightman; Navy Patriot

Here’s the Harvard Crimson take on this story:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/2/25/summers-retire-harvard-epstein/

It’s too bad that he had to resign!

It was also too bad that he had to resign as Harvard president in 2006, largely as the result of feminazi attack! It was Summers who initiated Harvard’s move into the Allston section of Boston, potentially creating a science and engineering complex equivalent to MIT’s complex in Cambridge’s Kendall Square.

Ever since Summer’s resignation as Harvard president, Harvard’s presidency has had massive feminazi influence, that has not been good for the university. Now the fallout from Epstein’s relationship with Summers and other Harvard professors threatens to bring back increased feminazi control. Not good!


46 posted on 02/25/2026 11:49:24 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: zeestephen
The correspondence between Summers and Epstein—which tallies thousands of emails and phone calls—revealed an intimacy that far exceeded the bounds of a professional relationship. Across dozens of threads, Summers sought Epstein’s advice on personal matters, including his pursuit of a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee.
Dirty old man.

It's a shame. His parents were both well-regarded professors of economics at University of Pennsylvania back in the day, before it started having women presidents and went commie, including teaching at Penn's Wharton School of Business. I'm wondering if either or both of them were Donald J. Trump's professors at Wharton.

47 posted on 02/25/2026 1:07:13 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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To: blackdog

Didn’t Summers start Facebook?


48 posted on 02/25/2026 2:42:02 PM PST by ReganFan4ever (Jesus saves, Moses invests.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Folks here have been declaring the Epstein case “over” for almost a year now—and it continues—with real world results for real people.

Next on tap—New Mexico.

Some very strange stuff went down there—some of it may have no statute of limitations.

It looks like New Mexico authorities are interested even if Bondi wants to stick her head in the sand.

In the old days (former governor) Bill Richardson had the clout to stop any investigation of anything that happened there—he is dead so all bets are off....


49 posted on 02/25/2026 3:02:19 PM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: zeestephen; lightman; Navy Patriot; Albion Wilde

Here are the potential feminazi fruits of the Summers dismissal!

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/2/25/nadine-burke-harris-profile/

We Harvard alumni must vote this DEI feminazi down, even during Lent!


50 posted on 02/26/2026 10:36:44 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb
From your link:
Nadine Burke Harris said she would continue to champion diversity and equity if elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers this April, arguing that both are central to academic excellence and well-being at the University.

Yeah? Prove it. Empirical observation sez otherwise.

51 posted on 02/26/2026 11:36:38 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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