Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Larry Summers is stepping back from public commitments “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me, ” he said in a statement to the Harvard student newspaper, after President Donald Trump asked the Justice Department to investigate him in connection with the Jeffery Epstein scandal.

Newsweek reached out to Summers for comment via email on Monday.

Why It Matters

Connections between the sex offender Epstein and powerful men, including Trump, are the focus of feverish attention, especially with a House vote expected Tuesday on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which calls for the release of case documents known as the Epstein files.

Trump has repeatedly denied knowledge of Epstein's crimes and said he ended

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