If you followed the twists and turns of the Jeffrey Epstein saga during the last few weeks, you already know that several prominent names emerged from the tranche of emails that the Epstein estate released. Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Larry Summers, who exchanged scores of emails with the convicted pedophile, has seen his reputation shredded. But there is one big name that has so far received very little attention.

It’s important to stress that Summers is not accused of any immoral or illegal conduct with underage girls, but he did betray a callous indifference to immoral and illegal conduct. Summers maintained a chummy relationship with Epstein years after Epstein had been convicted of soliciting underage prostitution, which is mind-boggling, and the consequences have been swift.

Summers’ behavior in his interactions with Epstein was appalling, but his response to the disclosure has been within normal bounds.

Why has there been no similar accountability for another of Epstein’s pen pals — Steve Bannon?

Trump’s consigliere, strategist, propagandist and former senior counselor at the White House was on very friendly terms with Epstein.

Do you have friends who can send a private jet to retrieve you when your flight has been delayed? Epstein apparently did that for Bannon in 2018.

The emails suggest that Bannon and Epstein often met in person, though, as Epstein’s case drew more attention in 2018 and 2019, they took precautions.

Epstein sought Bannon’s counsel on how to respond to then-Sen. Ben Sasse’s highly critical comments: “Continue to ignore? Ann Coulter on hannity/. Attack? Op ed , ? Not my skill set. … What about the attunes penning something that suggests indignation and lays out some of the facts.”

Bannon replied, “That drives it a week.”

Bannon filmed 15 hours for a documentary that would attempt to redeem Epstein’s reputation. When Epstein related that a Christian group he had met with said the media were portraying him “as beyond redemption,” Bannon responded, “Yes yes yes of course — but we must counter ‘rapist who traffics in female children to be raped by worlds most powerful, richest men.'”

The public Steve Bannon was another matter.

While sometimes casting doubt on the QAnon conspiracy, at other times he fed the flames. At the height of the 2020 campaign, he told his audience that the pedophile conspiracy is “at least directionally correct.”

The released emails show that one of those who was working most closely with Epstein, up to and including attempting to scrub his public image, was Bannon himself. Whatever else Summers may be, he is not one of the principal authors of the MAGA movement who stoked conspiracies about the “deep state” and gave oxygen to the most unhinged beliefs in circulation.

Where are the firings and denunciations? Where are Turning Point USA, the White House, House Speaker Mike Johnson? Where are all the MAGA faithful who claimed to believe or did believe in the vast conspiracy among elites to abuse children? And where is Bannon’s acknowledgment of wrongdoing?

Of these two men, the less guilty has acknowledged wrongdoing and been harshly punished while the more guilty man sails on without a backward glance. It’s a travesty.