The Lolita Express

EPSTEIN AND LARRY SUMMERS’ WIFE

Elisa New, who has been married to Summers since 2005, sent Epstein a copy of an invitation to an unnamed event on Nov. 25, 2018 [a decade after he had first gone to prison for prostitution charges involving underage victims].

She is an American literature professor at Harvard and also discussed literature with him.

She says in one message that she is going on a trip to Australia and will read a copy of “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov. The book is about a 30-something married scholar and his sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl. People later named Epstein’s private plane, which flight logs show ferried VIPs and women all over the world, “The Lolita Express.”

New then recommends he read “My Antonia” next time he’s on a long plane trip. “The prose is gorgeous, and the book has – come to think of it – similar themes to Lolita in that it’s about a man whose whole life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl.”

Which leads me to Andy Borowitz.

Andy is known for his funny headlines. (Lindsey Halligan Reveals Her Dream is to Someday Go to Law School.) Sometimes, he gets more substantive — while still blazingly funny. (Who Will Replace MTG in Trump’s Clown Car?) And on rare occasion he chooses not to be funny at all.

As here last week:

She Says Trump Raped Her When She Was a Child.

I don’t think the Epstein thing is going to go away.

It’s just drip, drip, drip.

The Republican standard bearer has said he can grab women by the pussy . . . was adjudicated to have raped a woman he swore was “Not His Type” . . . allegedly walked into teen-age girls’ dressing rooms . . . and has done everything he can to keep the Epstein files from coming out — even hauling one Republican Congresswomen into the Situation Room to browbeat her (unsuccessfully) into withdrawing her name from the discharge petition that finally got a vote after a 7-week Congressional recess designed to avoid it (leading some to brand his obedient G.O.P., “Guardians Of Pedophiles.)

As you know, once it was clear Trump would lose that vote, he claimed to be for release of the files.

Had that been true, he could simply have instructed the Justice Department to release them.

Now he’ll likely instruct the Department to find other ways to delay, obstruct, and redact.