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The Harvard Crimson has been all over Larry Summers relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and now we know that Summers was asking advice from Epstein on the best way to f%$# one of his subordinates.

The email exchanges between Summers and Epstein is nauseating. 

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he sought guidance from a longtime associate: convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.

In a sequence of texts and emails between November 2018 and July 5, 2019, Summers turned to Epstein for advice on his pursuit of the woman. Epstein was quick to chime in with assurance and suggestions, describing himself in one November 2018 message as Summers’ “wing man.”

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Together, the messages show Summers — who served as Treasury Secretary under former United States President Bill Clinton — placing an extraordinary degree of trust in Epstein, asking him for help in navigating a relationship that blurred the boundaries of his professional and personal lives.

This ain't boundary blurring, it is sexual harassment.

Summers, who has been married since 2005, told Epstein he thought the woman was reluctant to leave him because she valued his professional connections. Epstein told him in one June 2019 text, “She is doomed to be with you.”

“Think for now I’m going nowhere with her except economics mentor,” Summers wrote in November 2018. “I think I’m right now in the seen very warmly in rear view mirror category.”

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A spokesperson for Summers said that the woman described in the exchanges was never Summers’ student, but declined to comment further for this article.

So, he had power over professional career, but never was her instructor.  I guess that it makes OK, right?

Wrong.