The Labor Secretary steps down over the outraged response to the 2006 Epstein plea bargain:
Labor Secretary Alex Acosta is resigning just days after he defended his role in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Acosta announced that he would leave the administration a week from now as he and President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at the White House on Friday.
Trump brought Acosta out to break the news to journalists as he left the White House for Wisconsin, capping off a week rocked by new federal charges against Epstein in New York for trafficking underage girls.
In a more just world, he’d also be prosecuted. Whether there was undue pressure from on high or not, the fact that he doesn’t seem to understand why the deal was so obscenely wrong is deeply troublesome. And I can’t say I’m terribly impressed with President Trump’s response here, although I’ve learned to take his public statements with very large grains of salt.
But his resignation is the right thing to do at the moment, so there is that.