President Bill Clinton’s former Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, announced this Monday that resigns from all his public positions and commitments following the disclosure of new documents detailing his message exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein.
“I’m deeply ashamed of my actions and I recognize the pain they have caused,” he said in a statement.
Summers, que will maintain its academic activities, He said his decision seeks to “rebuild trust and repair relationships” after years of correspondence with Epstein.
“I take full responsibility for my mistaken decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein“Insisted the former official, who described the episode as a “serious error” in judgment.
The House of Representatives last week released a new series of emails showing the closeness between bothincluding the Epstein’s intervention in Summers’ personal affairs.
The content reactivated scrutiny of the economist, with immediate repercussions on his work in think tanks where he participates in economic reports.
Summers, key figure in the economic policy of recent decades and former head of the National Economic Council and former president of Harvard University, had already expressed regret for his relationship with Epstein.
The new publication of some 20,000 documents put the president, Donald Trump, at the center of the controversy, because in the emails the deceased pedophile claims that the president was aware of his abuse and that he spent “hours” with one of the women who reported being a victim.
This week, Congress could vote on a bill that aims to fully release the Epstein case files after Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn into the House, adjusting the 218 votes needed to pass the motion.