Posted on 07/13/2019 8:26:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Why did Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta resign?
His supposed “offense” was declining to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein in return for the billionaire sex predator’s guilty plea in state court (and concomitant jail sentence) when he was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. That is hardly an offense or even scandalous. It’s a professional decision that prosecutors across the country make every day. You can agree or disagree with it, but it is hardly grounds to lose your next job over.
So what is going on here?
The least likely possibility is that there really was something scandalous about Acosta’s decision. That he, or one of his subordinates, got something in return for declining to prosecute Epstein over a decade ago, and so Trump got rid of a bad apple. However, there is absolutely no evidence of this (at least that has been made public) and Acosta’s and subordinates’ actions are perfectly explainable in the absence of illegal inducements. Even if you accept the worst accusations against Acosta coming from Democrats and the mainstream media, that he and his people knuckled under to Epstein’s team of high-powered legal talent, so what? This happens, which is why there aren’t more multimillionaires and billionaires in jail. High-powered legal talent makes a difference. Exhibit A -- a guy named Orenthal James Simpson. That Epstein ended up in prison at all a decade ago is pretty good.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Kitchen was in the process of getting too hot, so Acosta left largely of his own volition.
The author, Jonathan F. Keiler, makes it sound as through President Trump either fired him or forced him into resignation. However, it could have been Acosta’s call from the start. As far as I have been told, by news articles, he resigned of his own volition.
You both need to read post 11. It lays out completely what really happened in this case.
I wonder if the press stooges will now turn on their new BFF, GWB? The prosecution and deal occurred under Bush’s watch.
Thanks, but there is absolutely no evidence to support the fanciful imagination of those who seek to put everything in the best possible light, notwithstanding the facts.
Acostas actions as US Atty were woefully inadequate and he left because he knew they could not be successfully defended. Trump concurred and did nothing to reject his resignation.
Any other interpretation is merely wishful thinking.
Yes, that’s it. I briefly looked for the video but could not find it. Thanks.
The amusing thing is that the Rats and their Media think that we're not taking notes.
If we can't use the First Amendment (power of the press, since it's a Democrat monopoly) to remove a future Democrat president's administrative officials in order to cripple the executive branch, we'll have to look over the other Amendments to see if any of them apply...
Remember that Goolag and its video subsidiary YouTube are manipulating search results.
I looked for an impromptu presser by Trump from the other day on ScrewTube and couldn't find it.
And I was the best SQL guy in my IT department back in the day, so I know a wee bit about searching on computers.
“Victims were shamed and not as often believed, which meant their testimony at trial was a lot less persuasive...”
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Remember the poor (white) hotel employee who accused Kobe Bryant (famous NBA player) of rape around 2003. His team of high powered lawyers spent months on national TV shaming her and dragging her through the mud. They made her look like the biggest whore ever on the entire planet. They made it so one in their right mind would ever again want to take on a famous rich dude.
No telling how many girls/women kept quite based on legitimate fears of shaming from this example alone. Is there any doubt guys like Epstein can have their way with anyone they want?
It was a mistake to capitulate to the left on this. The President should have stood by him. If there were serious issues with the plea agreement it would have come up long before now.
I don’t ever remember ‘The Donald’ worrying about the optics when it came time to doing what he had to do. No reason to change now.
This was a “yielding to honor and good sense” move. Plus it does cast more implied shade at Democrats, who also endured Epstein. They can’t condemn this firing without condemning their own nod, wink too.
“Did Trump remove him or did he step down on his own?”
He served at the pleasure of the President. He no longer serves.
Next question.
It is amazing how CLEAN is our President.
They have been trying, desperately and frantically, to get dirt on him.
All they have come up with is his locker-room pussy talk. It’s hilariously inconsequential.
Trump is amazing.
Acosta is small potatoes. He’s out of the way. We’ll see what happens with Epstein’s plea deal gambit.
read James Patterson’s book, “Filthy Rich”, about Epstein if you want to see what a PoS Acosta really was ...
I have suggested the possibility from the minute this pedophile story was re-aired that it could be coming from allies of Trump. The criminal case will be in full steam as we head into election season - either he will be on trial, or he will cut a plea that involves outing people who are co-conspirators in violations against minors, financial improprieties, and who knows what other sordid details - which would mean additional criminal cases brought against newly identified perpetrators.
And, who doesn't think Trump and his allies are plotting political revenge against his political enemies who have tried everything imaginable to weaken him, impeach him and damage his administration; from spying on his campaign to the perjury trap Russian hoax investigation to even trying to smear him with this scandal when of all the people attached to it Trump appears to be the only one who acted forthrightly - kicking the pedophile out of his club for improper contact with a minor and working with the legal team of one of the victims to get her deserved restitution. The Democrats on the other hand continued to take the pedophile's money and attend his lavish parties long after he was convicted.
“Acosta saw that he’d be amplified as a d’rat talking point, even though his explanation at the time held legitimacy.”
I won’t defend him. If you’re a PROSECUTOR and someone in government orders you to charge a person you know is a murderer with misdemeanor assault, then you RESIGN, at a minimum, and let someone else make an ass of himself by letting Epstein off. He’s an attorney, and would have been a former US prosecutor, he would have easily found a new job.
Life was quite different back then, also. Women were not treated very well in court back then, as their character was often viciously attacked. The only real issue I have is that the plea agreement was not passed by the victims first. I suggest there is still a lot we do not know regarding this case. It remains to be seen if we ever will, but I do not believe the blame lies solely, or even squarely, at Acosta's feet. I think bigger fish were exerting pressure on both state & federal prosecutors. Who knows maybe they have blackmail goods on him as well, but probably not for this type of crime. I guess my point is before we start making wild assumptions, we need to see what else comes out as this all unfolds. Patience is more often than not, still a virtue.
One place to find Trump vids is The Last Refuge at theconservativetreehouse.com. They have a link to Acosta’s press conference up also.
So the most likely explanation is that Trump sacrificed Acosta to penetrate the political smokescreen that the Democrats and media created with the entire Acosta brouhaha.
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That’s the excuse that is always used to ditch innocent conservatives when they are unjustly attacked. If Acosta was doing a good job and really did nothing wrong back then, he and Trump should have fought back together, tooth-and-nail.
Acosta made the best of a very bad situation, and did something instead of nothing.
That is the true state of our so-called justice system, which is rule of lawfare.
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