Well, that didn’t take long. After yesterday’s catastrophic news conference, where then-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta dug his hole deeper and deeper over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case in 2008, Acosta has resigned. The Guardian:
Speaking next to Alexander Acosta, Donald Trump said Acosta was a “great labor secretary not a good one,” according to the White House pool.
Trump also said he did a “very good job.”
He said Acosta explained his decision about Epstein in an hour-long press conference this week.
Vera Bergengruen(@VeraMBergen)
In January, Trump said “I sort of like ‘acting.’ It gives me more flexibility.”
He now has a non-permanent/acting:
– Defense Secretary
– Homeland Security Secretary
– Labor Secretary
– WH Chief of Staff https://t.co/3NN3Sau830
Details are sparse. As the story develops, we will update.
Was it just me or did Acosta (when he stepped up to the podium for his presser the other day – wearing those horn rimmed glasses) look just like Adolf Eichmann at Nuremburg? He’s as big a P.O.S. as Eichmann was, and given how he gutted his department’s budget for combatting human trafficking it seems to me like his efforts to cover up for sex predators like Epstein didn’t stop back in FL.
That intrigued me as well. Bloomberg had a piece up on that a few days after Epstein got arrested. How intriguing, I thought, that Acosta didn’t see sex trafficking as a high budgetary priority.
I wonder what Epstein had on Acosta.
There ya go. 45 hates bad press and if you work for him and get bad press – buh by. Let’s start calling ’em the Stephen Miller immigration camps. Barr….Miller, both need as much bad press as they can get then maybe 45 will have them leave too???? Nah, they know how to kiss the a** of 45.
Even so, that was DAMN fast in terms of exits. The Epstein thing is apparently a lot worse than we’re being told. But making Stephen Miller leave isn’t going to shut down one camp, I’m afraid. That will require getting Trump out completely.
Well, Bareshark, the next time we want to make a bet, we better move on it jimmy pronto. We discussed the bet yesterday — I gave him a month, as you may recall. I didn’t hear back from you — and he’s gone already. Man, we’ll have to do it like rock, paper, scissors, just get the bet on the table, in the blink of an eye, because that’s how fast the freaking news changes in this mis-administration.
So, this is cabinet member 12 or something to bite the dust? I’ve lost count and I’m dizzy from watching them all come and go.
Damn right it was fast! It was too slow IMO. The Epstein “thing” that we even know is horrific. Children were raped. Children were primed by a pedophile and those he paid to help him. Epstein, et al knew exactly what to do and how to do it because those were children. I don’t care their age and if they had small breasts and hips starting to grow – they were not WOMEN! The “worse” is going to be who else is connected.
Re: Miller / Barr – what I said is that they need bad press. I also said they know how to kiss 45’s ass and won’t be let go anyway. You’re correct, the nightmare won’t end until 45 is gone and the healing of this country, if it happens, will happen after I’m dead.
More Republican Party dysfunction. When will people learn?
Never. It’s never been any different. Although it has never been this extreme. This is like some e-ride at Disneyland that went totally off the rails, and the cars are still sailing through space.
In fairness, Obama one time wore a tan suit, and I think we can all see how that was worse than striking a clandestine deal to let a serial child rapist go free.
/s. Unless you’re a republican, I guess. They don’t seem to think that is a sarcastic statement at all.
He just had to make him humiliate himself first.
Oh, I suspect we’re just getting started on the humiliation, Cmae.
Plenty more to come, everyone!
Wow…looks like we were both way off, Ursula. We both knew Acosta was on his way out but this is warp speed even by Trump admin standards. Whatever’s happening must be scarier than the usual legal threats.
Yeah, this is trans warp drive. As I said to you upthread, if we decide to do a bet, it’s got to be right then and there. Seriously. This moseying around on the computer, going back and forth, won’t get it done.
Maybe we should post a lookout at each computer, to sound an alarm for each news development. This and Barr recusing and then un-recusing. What a week!!!
BTW, Bareshark — did you have a time frame as to when Acosta would leave? I gave it a month.
I was thinking a couple of weeks…silly us, eh?
Bareshark,
Why is 45 moving so fast this time? I’ll be watching for some nasty stuff coming out about trumps past associations with Epstein.
Oh, bet on it, Anniss, as that particular bet is a mortal lock.
Who had one day in the time-before-leaving pool?
Not me. I said one month.
Two weeks for me, P J. The house wins this round.
Dang it, and just when he was poised to bring back the applehead doll phenomenon. (I’m pretty sure I’m the only person here who has thought he looks like one, but now that I mention it tell me I’m not right, lol.)
The one I saw was a “Dick Tracy villain”.