NYT: Don't make Acosta a political martyr

[DonViejo]

BY MARINA PITOFSKY - 07/12/19 08:44 AM EDT

The New York Times editorial board on Thursday warned Democratic lawmakers against going after Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta over his 2008 plea deal with billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is currently facing sex trafficking charges involving minors.

The newspaper cautioned lawmakers that they could make Acosta a political “martyr” and said that the focus should be on a slate of other issues involving the Trump administration, including immigration policies, attempts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census and Hatch Act allegations against at least 10 Trump senior officials.

House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who heads the panel’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter to Acosta Wednesday, inviting him to testify later this month about his role in the Epstein plea deal.

The Times editorial board said that going after Acosta is a “poor use of the lawmakers’ limited time and resources.”

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https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/452761-nyt-dont-make-acosta-a-political-martyr

[JI7]

1. there is no way any decent person would see him as a martyr

and we can do more than one thing at a time.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Just how many 'decent' people support Trump, do you think?

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Everything needs addressed. This guy should be held accountable.

[gratuitous]

3. Really?

Sure, Jeffrey Epstein victimized all those girls, but let's not get all bent out of shape about Alexander Acosta and his shenanigans in making sure that Epstein was held only minimally responsible, victimizing the girls a second time. It's not like any of those girls are in the family tree of anyone on the Times editorial board.

As for lawmakers' limited time and resources, what does the Times think is going to get done by Congress as long as Mitch McConnell squats like a poisonous toad in the Senate Majority Leader's seat?

[Historic NY]

4. He's no martyr, he was a facilitator or a the very least a coward.

[watoos]

5. A woman wrote this article.

Kiss my ass lady whoever you are. I suppose the top brass of Penn State and Governor Corbett who enabled Jerry Sandusky are martyrs too?

Give me a break with this martyr bs, what a pathetic article from a NY Times woman writer.

Acosta needs to stay on the front page, he is already disappearing from view.

[DonViejo]

6. You don't understand articles from PoliticalWire? They are excerpts from articles,

in this instance an NYT Editorial. Your issue, if you have one, is with the Editorial Board of the New York Times

[PaddyIrishman]

7. Too late, he's gone

And good riddance to bad rubbish

[MineralMan]

9. Yes. Instead, just say, "Good riddance to bad rubbish."

Note: I clearly should have read the entire thread, since the post just above mine uses the same expression. GMTA, I guess.