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Harvard Launches A New Investigation Into The Institution's Relationship With Epstein
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Harvard has announced that it is launching a fresh review of its connections to Epstein after new emails and documents were released showing long -standing ties between Epstein and former Harvard president Lawrence Summers. The released materials show...
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What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. So Harvard has announced that it's opening a new probe into former university president Larry Summers and his connections with Jeffrey Epstein after newly released documents reveal that the two shared an unusually close relationship for several years, a Harvard spokesperson confirmed Tuesday night. Well, that's the soft version of it. Shared a relationship for several years? How about decades? And remember, all of this started in the Clinton White House. That was Jeffrey Epstein's in, right? Mark Middleton was the one who invited him there. We still don't have the full story on that. Well, Middleton's dead now, of course. You know, suicide they say, but we don't have the full story on that at all. And when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton, that was the inroad. And that's when he met Larry Summers and the rest of them. So that's a story that needs to be told at some point. That's certainly an origin story that we're definitely going to Dive into. And according to Harvard spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain, who wrote in a statement to the Crimson that the University is conducting a review of information concerning individuals at Harvard included in the newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents to evaluate what actions may be warranted. So in other words, what they're trying to show you is that they're doing something right? Oh, we're doing something here. We're definitely doing something. But the reality is they didn't do something when it mattered most and instead they protected people like Lauren Summers and Alan Dershowitz for all these years. Now they want to be the hero. They want to show up and talk about their investigation and, and how they're going to be looking into people. I mean, look, I'm all for it, right? The more investigations the better. But I'm very cynical about these internal investigations when it comes to Epstein at this point. Have any of them ever returned any results where you say to yourself, wow, they really did an autopsy of what's going on there? I haven't seen one investigation that has really cracked the shell. Not one of them. And that's all by design, by the way. Now, according to this release by the Harvard Crimson, the other people that are going to be investigated or looked at is Alan Dershowitz and Elisa F. New, who is married to Summers. And I'm sure as they continue to dig, they're going to find other people because, well, a lot of people were involved. A lot of people were taking Jeffrey Epstein's money and they didn't want the tap to dry up, right? So they're willing to look the other way. Who cares? It's not their daughter, just some girl from the other side of the tracks because guess what? They don't care about you. You are nothing to them. You're somebody that's a worker at. And when the time comes, you're somebody that they'll ship off to war. But besides that, you're a burden. And if you're wondering where I got that information from, how I know that, just read the emails that these people send back and forth and how they talk about us. That tells you everything you need to know about these scumbags and about how they feel about the vast majority of people in the country and around the world were nothing more than tools to be used and discarded whenever they see fit. I mean, Larry Summer's wife, in one 2014 exchange discussed a potential five hundred thousand dollar gift to poetry in America, a television show and digital initiative that she spearheaded. And of course, she also accepted money from Leon Black who was Jeffrey Epstein's guy. And of course, Jeffrey Epstein helped broker that deal, too. So, as you can imagine, Harvard has a lot to answer for. So let's talk about it. When Harvard first strutted out onto the stage years ago and pretended to launch its big, brave investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ties to the institution, I said right then and there that it was nothing but a stage play written by lawyers and performed by cowards. I said that they were whitewashing. And sure enough, they delivered a sparkling lemon scented scrub job worthy of corporate tech scandal boilerplate. They patted themselves on the back, issued their little report, acted like they faced their demons, and expected all of us to move on like good little sheep. Meanwhile, deep inside the ivory tower, the real rot stayed sealed behind mahogany doors and legacy donor soundproofing. They kept insisting we looked into it thoroughly, which is code for we interviewed nobody who mattered. We turned over no real stones, and we wrote the conclusion first and filled in the body last. It was a cover your ass exercise, nothing more, nothing less. A damage control pamphlet disguised as truth. And now, now they're crawling out and announcing another investigation like they just stumbled in the dark and discovered, whoopsy daisy, new information. Right? Okay. Because let's get something straight. The sudden burst of courage at Harvard has nothing to do with integrity or accountability and everything to do with survival and optics. You don't get to pretend you were blindsided by Larry Summers emails when half the goddamn university knew that Summers and Epstein were thicker than blood thieves. There are grad students with less commitment to their dissertations than those two had to each other's financial aspirations. Summers wasn't some passing acquaintance. He was plugged in like Epstein was a walking ATM with a Rolodex that could open kingdoms. Everyone at Harvard knew it. They just didn't care because that checkbook slapped louder than morality. Now they're backed into a corner with the spotlight getting hotter and hotter, and suddenly here they come, tripping over themselves like startled gazelles. Look at them now, Arms flailing, press releases spilling out, desperate to get ahead of the avalanche they created. Integrity didn't wake up in Cambridge. Fear did. And the irony of this whole circus is that they're pretending like Larry Summers. Little love letters with Epstein are what finally forced action. As if nobody had ever raised concerns before. As if students, staff, journalists, and even donors had been sounding alarms for years and getting told to sit down and shut up because Harvard was was too busy sucking helium out of the billionaire balloon. The emails didn't suddenly emerge like Moses Coming down from the mountain with two stone tablets. The only thing that changed is that the public finally got a peek behind the curtain and saw the carnival midgets juggling dynamite. So now Harvard has to do the whole we take matters very seriously routine. If they cared so much, they wouldn't have let Jeffrey Epstein stroll around campus like a visiting dignitary and instead of a sex trafficking lunatic that he was. But no, money smooths everything, doesn't it? And let's not forget Epstein wasn't just attending events or slipping in through the back gate like some shadow. No, the dude had an office on Harvard's campus. Sit with that for a second. An actual office, like he was faculty. Like he was contributing to society instead of destroying children's lives and laundering influence. You don't get an office in that universe a unless you're a golden calf or a proven rainmaker. They housed him, legitimized him, gave him space to operate. And then Susan from PR Style pretended they barely knew the guy when the heat turned up. The audacity is blinding. They didn't just enable this dude, they institutionalized him. That's the uncomfortable truth Harvard keeps trying to bury under words like review task force and independent oversight panel. And really, how many investigations are we going to do? Is this a university or a subscription based investigation service where every season comes with a new plot twist? We already watched them fumble the first one like a drunk juggler in a thunderstorm. That first report was nothing but tissue thin shield, a pathetic attempt to quiet critics and present the illusion of resolution. Something like we determined we didn't determine much, but trust us, we nothing to see here, folks. Now suddenly we're supposed to believe this second investigation is going to be the magical one that cracks the case? Spare us. When an institution proves it's willing to lie once, you don't give them a second lie at bat and hope they honestly hit it out of the park. Harvard's strategy is not unique. It's the same exact playbook every elite institution used when they got caught with Epstein slime on their hands. First, deny everything. Second, pretend to be shocked when evidence leaks. Third, assemble a panel of insiders to investigate themselves. Fourth, release a sanitized pamphlet that reads like it was written by ChatGPT stuck in a corporate training wheels mode. And fifth, when the public refuses to swallow it, announce a new investigation to make everyone believe progress is happening. This is the rinse and repeat cycle of of rot. They'd rather die of PR sepsis than confess the truth. And what kills me is watching them act like this time's going to be different. That this time they're committed to transparency, accountability and truth. As if the words haven't been beaten to death by every scandal ridden institution for the last 50 goddamn years. You could assemble a drinking game around how many times they say transparency in their press releases and and half the country would die before halftime. They think using responsible sounding language makes the stink go away. News flash, deodorant doesn't work on corpses.
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