There is a simple truth our nation must face: when the powerful treat evil as a passing curiosity, the people suffer. Today, we are witnessing a long-overdue reckoning for one of the so-called “brilliant minds” of the liberal establishment—Larry Summers. For years, Summers was held up as an intellectual giant, serving as Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton and later as an economic advisor to Barack Obama. But no amount of Ivy League titles or Washington connections can cover up the shameful decisions he made.
We now know that Summers chose to spend his honeymoon in 2005 on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island—a place now infamous as a den of sin, where young girls were trafficked and abused. He didn’t go there by accident. He flew there on Epstein’s private jet, known as the “Lolita Express,” alongside none other than Ghislaine Maxwell, who was later convicted for her role in Epstein’s crimes. This was not some innocent vacation. This was a decision made by a man of influence, a man who should have known better.
Summers and his wife, Elisa New, claim they only stayed on the island for less than a day. But that hardly matters. The issue here is not how long they stayed. The issue is why they went in the first place, and what that says about their judgment. At the time of their visit, Epstein had already caught the attention of police in Palm Beach, Florida. He was under investigation for the rape of a 14-year-old girl. Summers, a man with access to all the information in the world, either did not care or chose to look the other way. That is not just negligence. That is moral failure.
The media is finally beginning to shine a light on this, though many of them were silent for years. Back in 2019, conservative outlets like The Gateway Pundit were already reporting on Summers’s connection to Epstein. The New York Post has now picked up the story, quoting sources that confirm Summers and his wife flew to Epstein’s island just days after their wedding. And now, under growing pressure, Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI, stepped away from teaching at Harvard, and issued a vague apology.
But an apology is not enough. Our culture has allowed too many elites to walk away from their mistakes with little more than a shrug and a carefully worded statement. What makes this situation even more disturbing is the email correspondence now coming to light. Elisa New, Summers’s wife, not only asked Epstein for funding for her poetry foundation, but also praised the novel *Lolita*—a book about a man obsessed with a young girl. That alone should make every decent American’s skin crawl.
We must ask ourselves: how did we let people like this rise to such high places? Why did we trust them to guide our schools, our government, and our future?
This case is not just about one man’s poor choices. It points to a deeper rot in the liberal elite. For too long, they have acted as if they are above the law, as if their degrees and connections give them a free pass to ignore basic morality. But the American people are waking up. We are beginning to demand accountability, not just from politicians, but from academics, business leaders, and every person in a position of power.
President Trump has made it clear that justice must be for all—not just for the common man, but for the elite as well. That is what real leadership looks like. The days of looking the other way are over.
We must continue to expose the truth, no matter how ugly. We must build a culture where character matters more than credentials. And we must teach our children that no amount of status can excuse wickedness.
America is a land of righteousness, built on values passed down from our forefathers. It is time we return to those values.
