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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,455 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 08:17 PM Sep 2025

Trump team finds someone to throw under the bus on Epstein

Tuesday’s Senate hearing featuring FBI Director Kash Patel didn’t shed a ton of light on the substance of the Jeffrey Epstein files. But it was hugely significant in another way: It signaled a new political effort by the Trump administration to ascribe blame.

And the target is none other than a former top Trump administration official – one whom Trump very notably once defended.

Testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patel seemed to make a point to fault Alexander Acosta, who was US attorney in Florida in the late 2000s and cut a nonprosecution agreement with Epstein. That deal came during the George W. Bush administration, years before Trump in his first term picked Acosta as labor secretary.

Patel twice brought Acosta up unprompted, including in his opening statement, during Tuesday’s hearing.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-team-finds-someone-throw-212642259.html

That still won't save your oversized ass Donny.

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Trump team finds someone to throw under the bus on Epstein (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 OP
Felon out on bail thinks sacraficing an attorney who was dumb enought to get involved after the crime will work? Attilatheblond Sep 2025 #1
So, he didn't describe Acosta as "Obama's pick"? AZJonnie Sep 2025 #2
They need to be careful. Bondi was Florida AG at the time and did nothing about it. enough Sep 2025 #3

Attilatheblond

(9,249 posts)
1. Felon out on bail thinks sacraficing an attorney who was dumb enought to get involved after the crime will work?
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 08:21 PM
Sep 2025

That wanna-bee tyrant is doing more than burgers and diet coke.

AZJonnie

(4,027 posts)
2. So, he didn't describe Acosta as "Obama's pick"?
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 08:26 PM
Sep 2025

I mean, he got the job from W, but there's nothing Republicans enjoy more than lying to try to shift blame to Democrats, and the cult believes everything they are told, so, yeah. Be sorta surprising to me if he if he didn't do something like that.

I'm positive that he also failed to mention that Acosta was Trump's pick for Labor Secretary. That's probably fake news from the Deep State anyway. Acosta wasn't even the covfefe boy, in fact, Dear Leader has never heard of him!

enough

(13,773 posts)
3. They need to be careful. Bondi was Florida AG at the time and did nothing about it.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 08:40 PM
Sep 2025

From Google:

Though not involved in the original deal, Bondi received criticism for not intervening when victims challenged the agreement in court while she was in office. Critics argued that her silence helped perpetuate what victims called a "government cover-up".

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