BREAKING NEWS: Dems call on Trump to fire Acosta

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Dems call on Trump to fire Acosta
By Juliegrace Brufke - 02/22/19 04:01 PM EST

Three House Democrats are collecting signatures for a letter calling on President Trump to demand the resignation of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta.

The push comes a day after a federal judge ruled that Acosta and other federal prosecutors acted illegally in making a plea deal with accused child sexual abuser and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein before speaking with his victims.

“Despite abundant evidence and multiple witnesses still willing to come forward, then-U.S. Attorney Acosta failed to charge Epstein under federal trafficking laws, which could have put Epstein away for life,” the letter states. “Instead, he pleaded guilty to far lesser prostitution-related charges and served only 13 months in a private wing of a county jail but was able to leave 6 days a week for 12 hours at a time.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/431200-dems-call-on-trump-to-fire-acosta

A police investigation found that Epstein had sexually abused dozens of girls. He got a shockingly light sentence.

The money manager was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion between 2001 and 2006. But as Julie K. Brown reports at the Miami Herald, he ultimately got just 13 months in a county jail, thanks to a deal signed by Alexander Acosta, then the US Attorney for Miami and now President Trump’s secretary of labor. On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that Acosta’s team broke the law by concealing the agreement from more than 30 girls who said Epstein abused them, Brown reports.

He was granted work release to go to a “comfortable office” for 12 hours a day, six days a week, despite the fact that the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Department prohibited work release for sex offenders.

Jeffrey Epstein: sex offender reaches settlement, averting victim testimonies

He was also good friends with Donald Trump, who described Epstein to New York magazine in 2002 as someone who “enjoys his social life.”

Much of Epstein’s “social life” involved very young women. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years,” Trump said at the time. “Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/3/18116351/jeffrey-epstein-trump-clinton-labor-secretary-acosta

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Good, get it on the record. He wont of course, unless it causes him some inconvenience.

Rump nor any gop ever do things for the right reason.

[Leghorn21]

2. Have a nice weekend, Acosta

This thing is finally breaking

It’s my understanding that a reporter named Julie K. Brown (Miami Herald) has relentlessly pursued this story for years now, and she’s finally seeing some daylight -

Thank you, Ms. Brown

Whassuppp, Acosta

[True Blue American]

17. Listened to Miss Brown

Yesterday!

We do not need to be discouraged when we have so many Good Investigative Reporters around.

[Kurt V.]

3. tRump won't fire him. but he will probably *resign* to spend time with family

[IronLionZion]

4. Trump will fire Jim Acosta instead

from CNN

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. Do you think that name similarities are coincidental?

The sexual allegations Teflon Don made against him were groundless; but now similar condemnations could made against an ally in the Trump Cabinet.
Look at this fake photographic proof, where the Teflon Don intern actually puts her hands on the reporter, JIM Acosta, until he asks her to "please sit down" while he still focuses on tRump:
https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2018/nov/08/white-house-accuses-cnns-jim-acosta-of-placing-his-hands-on-young-intern-video

His hand is at least a foot away from the woman; and the room was full of photographers, who supported tRump. This name similarity could be misconstrued by uninformed Trump supporters.

[True Blue American]

20. She was right in Acosta's face and circling around him.

He never touched that girl.

[True Blue American]

18. He tried!

[majdrfrtim]

5. ". . . he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

Disgusting.

Actually, do we even have a word in the English language adequate to describe how awful this is (and they are)?

[True Blue American]

19. Dirty Old Men

Abusing young girls?

Did they all grow up in the Southern Baptist Church?

[olegramps]

22. Like his own daughter?

[RockRaven]

6. ALL OF THIS WAS KNOWN WHEN HE WAS NOMINATED BY TRUMP AND CONFIRMED BY GOP SENATE

so Ben Sasse and other phony GOPers are full of s--t with their fake concern now. And Trump is more likely to keep him just to defy Dems and the media.

[RainCaster]

9. DFT has to keep him

Acosta got that job for keeping his buddy out of the news. I think there may be a very close tie between Spanky and Epstein.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Nothing will happen, as usual.

Rich, powerful men control the world and women, just ask the Pope. They will continue to protect each other and that is all that is all that ever happens.

[mcar]

10. He should be in prison

Lock him up!

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. If this was a Democrat, the repugs would be screaming to high heaven for

the gallows. The hypocrisy is appalling.

[Yavin4]

12. Name someone in the entirety of the Trump administration with clean hands.

No, not small hands. Clean hands.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. LOL! on "Small Hands" I'd forgotten how senistive tRump was about size of appendages during election

[INdemo]

13. Ok ..this Acosta story and illegal plea agrrement has been buried in the system.

in Florida for 11 years. Rick Scott Governor for 8 of those years. so given the fact that there were ways of keeping this court action idle for those 8+3 years kind of sends the signal that yes that crooked SOB Scott no doubt had has his fingerprints on this illegal Epstein plea agreement and was able to keep this out of the media and keep this away from victims.,,,Hell yes somehow someway Rick Scott was involved.

Because nothing like this could have happen without the knowledge the Governor.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

14. Acosta needs to go

Giving a leniant sentage to someone raping underage girls is unacceptable. He should never have gotten the job in the first place. This and the Robert Kraft story are truly horrible. The rich and powerful shouldn't get off easy because they have a ton of money to throw around.

[ForgedCrank]

15. Trump will keep him on just out of purse spite. It appears to me that he

spends most of his time figuring out new ways to troll the American people and sew distrust.
It will be epic watching him melt when he loses his upcoming re-election bid.

[Scurrilous]

16. K&R

[world wide wally]

21. I see the dominoe theory leading all the way to Trump with this one

[bonniebgood]

23. all i could think of when i heard this is the Media Bashing candidate

Obama suffered about something Rev. Jerimiah SAID.