‘Deeply Ashamed’ Larry Summers, Ex-Harvard Boss and Clinton/Obama Bigwig, Ducks Public Life as Epstein Ties Blow Up in His Face

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Folks, the Jeffrey Epstein sewer just keeps bubbling over, and once again the Democrats are the ones getting splashed while they scream “But Trump!” at the top of their lungs. Funny how that works.

The latest casualty is none other than Lawrence H. Summers: former Harvard president, Clinton Treasury Secretary, Obama economic guru, and all-around Democratic elite insider who apparently couldn't quit Jeffrey Epstein even after the whole world knew the guy was a convicted child-sex predator. 

On Monday night, Summers announced he's crawling into a hole and stepping back from public life. The Harvard Crimson broke the news with this gem of a statement from the man himself:

"I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. 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."

"Rebuild trust." Sure, Larry. Good luck with that after the House Oversight Committee just dumped seven years of your cozy emails with Epstein, running clear through 2019, long after his 2008 plea deal for soliciting prostitution from a minor and long after the Miami Herald exposed his underage trafficking operation.

We're talking banter about dating advice, Summers actually asking the creep whether he should send a note to some woman he had the hots for. Cringe doesn't even begin to cover it. Meanwhile, the same Democrat clown car that’s been screeching "Trump is Epstein’s best buddy!" for years can't explain why their own delegate Stacey Plaskett was texting the guy during a 2019 congressional hearing, or why Hakeem Jeffries turns into a stuttering wreck every time someone asks him about it. Watching Chuck Schumer and Jeffries flail around trying to defend their team is peak comedy gold.

Harvard, that former shining beacon on the hill, that has been a nonstop embarrassment factory lately, just added another stain to the rug. Summers says he'll keep teaching (of course he will; tenure is forever), but he's vanishing from the public stage. If my kid were enrolled in one of his classes right now, I'd be on the phone with the registrar faster than you can say "drop-add period."

Look, Summers has survived scandals before: remember when he got run out of the Harvard presidency in 2006 after daring to suggest there might be biological reasons men dominate some STEM fields? [A lot of us thought that one got twisted way out of context, but whatever.] But this Epstein mess is a different animal entirely. This one sticks.

The left spent years trying to glue Trump to Epstein with zero evidence that actually matters, and every time they yank on that thread they end up clotheslining their own guys: Bill Clinton on the Lolita Express flight logs, now Larry Summers swapping rom-com tips with a monster. Keep swinging, Democrats. You'Mire doing a bang-up job taking out your own roster while Trump just sits back and watches the self-own parade roll by.

As the old Southwest Airlines ads used to say… Wanna get away, Larry? Yeah, we bet you do.

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Biden's approval rating falling among Democrats faster than Jeffrey Toobin's pants

President Joseph Robinette Biden's (D) approval rating is circling the bowl and is now below 50% in a new Monmouth University poll this week. This is the first time since he took office that the Democratic Party has realized they elected a pumpkin seed for POTUS.

Monmouth University said in the poll released on Wednesday that “Biden currently holds a job rating of 48% approve and 43% disapprove. This is down from his 54% approve and 41% disapprove rating in April." It's difficult to imagine that 48% of the nation still approve of this obviously demented geezer who can't string two sentences together, and by the third sentence, has forgotten the first sentence.

Less than a fifth of Republicans approve of Biden's job performance and this mostly consists of the people of the Lincoln Project, Adam Kissinger, and Jennifer Rubin. In fact, if you approve of Biden's job performance, you ain't Republican.

In April, 83% of Democrats “said they thought the country was moving in the right direction,” What they meant was that the country was moving in the left direction. The New York Times, previously considered to be a newspaper, reported “But in Wednesday’s poll, just 59 percent of Democrats said that. The share of Democrats saying the country was on the wrong track rose by 20 percentage points, to 32 percent.” Evidently they removed their heads from a dark place located down south.

The Times said that one of the top takeaways from the poll was that “Democrats are the ones growing most disillusioned, and fast.”

It's amazing how the Democrats didn't see that Biden is in serious cognitive decline, and forgot that he was never the sharpest knife on the Christmas tree in the first place.

Two major areas of concern pointed out by Monmouth University was runaway inflation due to the Biden administration spending like drunken sailors, and the conditions regarding the middle class.

Insofar as Biden's spending is concerned and the fear that it will lead to spiraling inflation, 47% are very concerned that this will be the outcome and 24% are somewhat concerned. Those who are at least somewhat concerned about prices rising due to the proposed spending blitz include most Republicans (93%), independents (70%), and Democrats (55%).

About 1 in 5 (19%) mentally deficient Americans say middle-class families have benefited from Biden’s policies a lot. These consist mainly of rioters and looters. About one-third (32%) say they've benefitted a little, and 36% say the middle class hasn't benefitted at all, a less positive result since the pumpkin seed took office.

In January, 30% of the public expected the middle class would benefit a lot from his policies, 39% said a little, and 27% said not at all.

CNBC reported this week that Americans’ fear of inflation hit an all-time record high as “the expectation is that the inflation rate will be up to 4% one year from now.”

Larry Summers, who held top economic positions in the Clinton and Obama administrations, told PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” last week that the enormous amount of spending Biden has done risks melting down the economy if it overheats, to which Biden responded: "You're a dog-face pony soldier. I'm not joking."

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