Posted on 07/10/2019 9:07:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The leftist media machine has launched an effort to link Donald Trump with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. This tiresome methodology of character attack is a threat to the core of free speech, as victimhood — whether of border children, women, blacks, gays, transgenders, or inquiring people — is transformed into a self-righteous weapon unhindered by policy prescriptions, employed by one political group against another on purely ideological grounds.
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But now a mob has been loosed. What is striking about Acosta's case is that he is being excoriated not for doing too much to defend a sex offender but too little to punish or convict — that is, he is being criticized not as a defense attorney, like Sullivan, Pattis, or Adams, but as a prosecutor. Just as defendants and their counsel must weigh their risks of conviction, so too must prosecutors assess the risks and costs of failing to meet that much higher burden of "beyond a reasonable doubt." Epstein served jail time and probation and was compelled to register as a sex offender. Acosta has stated that "the plea deal's results were 'better' than risking a trial, which he said had 'a reduced likelihood of success.'" Not only do the media seek to revisit that prosecutorial discretion, but they have already passed judgment. If Acosta had tried the case and lost, the result would have been horrible, compelling the victims to testify in a new trauma.
Examining old cases, defense attorney Hillary Clinton not only successfully defended a barbaric rapist who left a young girl in a coma for weeks, but boasted about it. She got him off on a technicality and laughed in an interview that she personally transported the defendant's stained underpants to a forensic scientist in order to do so.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The most interesting question is who in the GWB administration told Acosta to go easy and why?
I think lefties come primed foaming at the mouth with rage.
For the opposite view, see:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/gop-senators-mindlessly-defend-alex-acosta.php
The most interesting question is who in the GWB administration told Acosta to go easy and why?
This was in 2008? Obama administration?
Apply critical thinking to anything the Democrat party and media does deliberately and any argument falls entirely apart in very short order.
Obama started January 20, 2009.
This was on GWB’s watch.
No question in my mind that the AG would have had to sign off on a deal like that in such a high profile case.
Hey Democrats. The deep state alligators are hungry. You have been neglecting their feedings. They will eat at any risk.
Another Southern District of New York connection ...
wiki:
Michael Bernard Mukasey
81st United States Attorney General
In office
November 9, 2007 – January 20, 2009
Michael Bernard Mukasey[1] ; born July 28, 1941)[2] is a lawyer and former federal judge who served as the 81st Attorney General of the United States. He was appointed as Attorney General by President George W. Bush following the resignation of Alberto Gonzales. Mukasey also served for 18 years as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, six of those years as Chief Judge. Mukasey was the second Jewish U.S. Attorney General.[3] Mukasey is currently a partner at the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton.[4]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqxqBwDZQAA
AG Michael Mukasey collapses (raw video)
Published on Nov 20, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and lost consciousness, a Justice Department official said.
My conspiracy theory:
A foreign government, friendly to the USA, used Epstein and his house and his island as a honeypot to bring powerful perverts and film/video them for blackmail. This is similar to what was alleged to be behind Hugh Hefner and the Playboy mansions, but the funding source/controller was our CIA and the targets were members of the media (remnants of Operation Mockingbird).
The Left probably feels if Epstein had been sentenced to life in federal prison, none of the D elite (”Our Faves”) would have been ensnared past his incarceration date.
That is why they are so angry at Secretary of Labor and former Federal Prosecutor Acosta.
IMHO.
The most interesting FACT is that the Famous Mr Robert Mueller was the US Att who RECOMMENDED the plea deal to Acosta, because he was using Epstein in a Financial investigation he had going on.
Also interesting is a key witness in the case died, and the case had a good chance Epstein would walk, so by giving him a plea deal at least he would get 3 years.
Oh goodie. I know the #1 question for Mueller when he answers questions in front of Nadlers Nabobs. The #2 question should involve the FBI hire for murder bunch in Boston.
Acosta’s account is that they did not have any strong admissible evidence. Further, that that situation has changed as new evidence has come to light.
Schumer, who was Mukasey’s chief Democratic sponsor
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/695224434/Demos-boost-Mukaseys-prospects.html
Both, Florida is Jeb! territory.
“The most interesting question is who in the GWB administration told Acosta to go easy and why?”
This might help answer your question.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3762806/posts
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/fbi-pedophile-jeffrey-epstein-was-informant-for-muellers-fbi/
From the article:
“Epstein has also provided information to the FBI as agreed upon,” says one of the court documents. “Case agent advised that no federal prosecution will occur in this matter as long as Epstein continues to uphold his agreement with the state of Florida.”
Epstein was working closely with Mueller and the FBI and providing them information and possibly other favors. They were protecting him. Others possibly were too.
Any major intelligence agency on the planet, that was *not* trying to recruit Epstein as a made to order series of lovely honey traps, for large numbers of powerful people, was not doing their job.
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