I knew nothing about Trump’s Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta until I accidentally ran across this article in the Miami Herald, which they climax with a call for his resignation. The context is the prosecution and conviction of a billionaire by the name of Jeffrey Epstein, who’d apparently been taking sexual advantage of teen-age girls.
But these abused women, who had turned to the judicial system for recourse, also are owed an explanation from former Miami-based U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta. He cut Epstein a huge and unmerited break.
Maybe Acosta can include his reasoning in his resignation letter as U.S. Labor Secretary, which he should submit immediately to President Trump.
Last week, as the Miami Herald detailed Epstein’s wrongdoing, we wrote that Acosta, who was said to be on the list of possible replacements for fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, was ethically compromised by his action here a decade ago.
Now, as more unbelievable details have emerged in reporter Julie Brown’s extensive, year-long probe, we are recommending that Acosta resign his current position for allowing a rich, powerful, politically connected man to avoid justice and get off easy — and also for having no qualms about denying all the women victimized by Epstein the justice they had every right to expect.
Worse yet, Acosta made the deal with the devil Epstein, then tried to hide the fact of the settlement — ultimately, 13 months in the county jail — from the victims. How squirrelly. A poorer man who had abused scores of underage girls would have received little mercy and a far harsher sentence, and deservedly so.
I had thought the denizens of the swamp were more or less the bottom of the barrel, but if these allegations are true, then Acosta may be the worst of the bunch.
Perhaps I’m just blathering. This really makes me sick to my stomach, kow-towing to the money controlled by an apparent sexual predator. It’s another example of a swamp no longer filled with alligators, but something much, much worse.
