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When news broke last week that Judge Kenneth A. Marra of Federal District Court in West Palm Beach ruled Alexander Acosta had broken the law in the plea deal he gave to alleged child molester Jeffrey Epstein, I assumed his resignation would come swiftly. The last thing the Trump administration needs is a scandal in which a senior member of his staff is perceived by the public to have helped a rich child molester get off easy.
Five days later, the story seems to have gone away.
Acosta is still Labor Secretary.
I’ll join Jonathan Turley in calling for his immediate resignation. I’ll take it up a notch and say if there’s no resignation immediately, President Trump should fire him when he gets back from North Korea.
IT IS TIME FOR ACOSTA TO RESIGN
Despite a strong case for prosecution, Epstein’s lawyers, including Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, were able to secure a ridiculous deal with prosecutors. He was accused of abusing more than forty minor girls (with many between the ages of 13 and 17). Instead of being held accountable, he was allowed to plead guilty to a Florida state charge of felony solicitation of underage girls in 2008 and served a 13-month jail sentence. Moreover, to my lasting surprise, the Senate approved the man who cut that disgraceful deal, former Miami U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta, as labor secretary. The Senate did not seem to care that Acosta betrayed these victims and protected a serial abuser. In other words, everyone was protected–-The powerful Johns, Epstein, the prosecutors–just not the victims who were never consulted before Epstein got his sweetheart deal.
This isn’t about politics. If the story is going to be ignored, it would behoove the President to let this get swept under the rug. This is about integrity within the White House and demonstrating that raw deals protecting powerful people are not acceptable in Washington DC. If the goal is still to drain the swamp, the swamp is personified right now as the Labor Secretary. This should be a no-brainer.
Some Democrats are calling for his resignation, but it’s conspicuous that this isn’t a bigger story than it is. Does Epstein, and therefore Acosta, have dirt on certain allies to the Democrats? It’s common knowledge that many powerful people, including President Clinton, were frequent guests of Epstein at the island where the prostitution of underage girls allegedly took place.
If Acosta were part of a Democratic president’s administration, the calls from the right would be deafening. But he’s in President Trump’s administration and the last two years have not demonstrated a strong hiring track record in the White House. But here’s the thing. Allowing someone like Acosta to remain part of the administration for the sake of political expediency is not what voters expected when they put Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Again, they expected the swamp to get drained.
Acosta is the epitome of the swamp, a man who makes deals with powerful people in order to advance their career, cover for their allies, and have leverage over enemies.
Jeffrey Epstein is a monster who got off easy. The guy who helped him get off is Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta. This man has no business being part of the administration. He needs to go.
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