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think- ago

“The damage that happened in this case is unconscionable,” said Bradley Edwards, a former state prosecutor who represents some of Epstein’s victims. “How in the world, do you, the U.S. attorney, engage in a negotiation with a criminal defendant, basically allowing that criminal defendant to write up the agreement?”

Acosta is an asshole. It makes me sick to think that he got his position as a Secretary of Labour as reward for what he did for Epstein.

gogogogostop ago

Looks like Trump is going to use Acosta like he used Rosenstein and Mueller. Let him get his neck deep in the trap.

think- ago

Looks like Trump is going to use Acosta like he used Rosenstein and Mueller.

Elaborate?

gogogogostop ago

Maybe I'm being too hopeful. I should have said "might be" instead of "is".

Trump specifically used both Rosenstein and Mueller (and Sessions) for optics in order to keep the Dems thinking they had some control over the investigation, and played these guys like chess pieces to turn things in his favor.

With Acosta, I suspect that Trump is using him for optics as well, and probably something more is behind it too. He would have known about Acosta's part in Epstein's plea deal as well as the illegalities of that deal before he selected Acosta as his Labor Secretary. I feel quite certain that every move that Trump makes has been carefully planned out beforehand. Nothing is being done without good reason. I don't think he picked Acosta on a whim.

With that said, it's really just a question of how Acosta's position as Labor Secretary might be useful to Trump? I don't know much about politics, but I know that Acosta is responsible for labor issues, which includes issues relating to human trafficking, which is a big ticket item on Trump's fix-it list. At this point we can only speculate on how that might work into Trump's plans, but consider the fact that Acosta is a Deep State player, based on how he helped Epstein out with an illegal deal. He was working under Mueller when he made that deal with Epstein, so Mueller is implicated in that as well. Acosta is working for the Deep State, so he might be managing some illegal things for them in the Labor Dept., like covering up human trafficking issues involving certain businesses, etc. These issues will be coming up as Trump moves forward and starts investigations into that as part of his agenda.

Who really knows, but the probability is very high that there's a good reason why Trump put him where he is. Trump doesn't do things without a good reason.