Regarding Alex Acosta

President Donald Trump came out with Acosta at the White House at 9:34 a.m. and said Acosta called him that morning to say he’s resigning. Though Acosta spent nearly an hour Wednesday defending his handling of Epstein’s South Florida case in 2007 and 2008, Trump said the decision to resign was Acosta’s.

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He said Acosta “graciously tendered his resignation.”

  Miami Herald

"Resign or be fired. Your choice."

Acosta, during a question-and-answer session with reporters, declined to apologize to Epstein’s victims and said he had, in fact, ensured they weren’t re-victimized during what would have been a contentious trial.

Oh, right. He didn't even TELL the victims he was making a deal with Epstein. They weren't given a chance to say whether they wanted to give evidence at a trial.

During his four-year tenure, the U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuted major figures in drug trafficking, terrorism and fraud cases such as al Qaida-trained terrorist Jose Padilla, GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Liberian torturer Chuckie Taylor Jr., and Colombian cocaine kingpins Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela.

His office also prosecuted hundreds of healthcare, banking and mortgage fraud offenders involved in billions of dollars of scams, including prominent Swiss bank UBS for establishing secret offshore bank accounts for U.S. clients to avoid paying federal income taxes.

Acosta also touted his office’s prosecutions of sex trafficking and sex tourism cases involving minors, as well as internet child pornography cases.

Well, except for that ONE.

Bradley Edwards, an attorney who represents some of Epstein’s accusers, said the resignation Friday does not answer all of the questions that he and his clients have for the former prosecutor.

“We want to sit down with him and have him talk to us and explain why he did what he did,” Edwards said, adding “what we really want to know is if there was somebody above him that ordered that victims not be notified. Was there someone else involved in scuttling the case?”

I'm sorry. Mr. Acosta had to leave the country on a family emergency.

In her year-long investigation of Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown tracked down more than 60 women who said they were victims of abuse and revealed the full story behind the sweetheart deal cut by Epstein’s powerhouse legal team.

Since the Herald published ‘Perversion of Justice’ in November 2018, a federal judge ruled the non-prosecution agreement brokered by then South Florida U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta was illegal, and last week Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in New York state. And on July 12, Acosta resigned as U.S. Secretary of Labor. Investigative journalism makes a difference. Your support makes it possible.

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Over the last week, even as Acosta argued that he’d successfully forced Epstein to register as a sex offender and pay damages to dozens of girls, at least two congressional committees called on him to appear before them to explain Epstein’s plea deal.

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Acosta’s handling of Epstein’s plea agreement also remains the subject of an ongoing Department of Justice review. Trump, while defending Acosta Tuesday at the White House, seemed to allude to the review when he noted “we’re going to look at it very carefully.”

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U. S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Miami, said it was clear Acosta had to resign once a Miami judge ruled in February that his office had violated a federal law protecting victims’ rights when it kept Epstein’s plea deal secret from his accusers. “It was inconceivable that he continued in his post, such a high level post."

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“There’s a lot of arrogance around the men surrounding the president and his appointees,” she said. “They think they can get away with it but we are still living in the United States of America where no one is above the law [...] .”

Tell that to Nancy Pelosi.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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Dear god.

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Interesting article about Acosta claiming he was becoming persona non grata in the adminstration anyway, because he wasn't pushing deregulation fast enough

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I sense a pattern.