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Blunt, angry @MiamiHerald editorial calling for resignation of Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta after the shattering expose from @jkbjournalist on Acosta's role in the Jeffrey Epstein child rape case...
"These abused women, who had turned to the judicial system for recourse, are owed an explanation from Acosta. He cut Epstein a huge and unmerited break...
"Maybe Acosta can include his reasoning in his resignation letter as U.S. Labor Secretary, which he should submit immediately to President Trump."

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A very interesting new development today courtesy of this American Oversight FOIA request.

Brian Benczkowski led the "landing team" for the Trump transition at the Dept of Justice.

Then, right after the transition, he was hired by Alfa Bank specifically on the controversy...
over those mysterious computer communications during the campaign between Russia-based servers for Alfa Bank, and servers for the Trump Org.

That was a red flag for some Senators when Benczkowski was then nominated by Trump to head the Criminal Division at DOJ.
Benczkowski said at his hearings that he would recuse himself at DOJ from anything involving Alfa Bank, but he would *not* commit to recuse himself from the Mueller investigation more broadly.

He was confirmed as Assistant Attorney General.

But now today...
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Did you see that A-Block we did a few months ago about a long-forgotten book called "Night at Camp David"?

It was right after the anonymous NYT Op-Ed that claimed Trump was nuts enough that White House staff were constructively (?) sabotaging him for the good of the country...
Here's a link to that A-block:

msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/…
The basic idea was that an obscure 1965 political thriller (written by Fletcher Knebel, the author of Seven Days in May) had an eerily similar premise.

This was subhead on the cover of the book: "What Would Happen if the President of the U.S.A. Went Stark Raving Mad?"
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Hey thanks to everybody who has listened to the first couple episodes of Bag Man so far! #Bagman

Few little things:

(1) There's only 7 episodes altogether -- so 1-2 are out already; there will be 5 more.

(2) New ones come out every Tuesday. So...
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(3) Because we're dorks, we are posting source/reference material for each episode here: msnbc.com/bagman

(4) That's the same site...
...where you can go to download each episode, read the transcript, or click on links to subscribe.

Thanks again to everyone who's checked it out, subscribed, etc. If you liked how it started, you're going to **love** how it ends.

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"Maybe he can make a living representing perverts." @miamiherald says Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta must quit after caving to a #Trump friend/pedophile facing charges in the sexual abuse of dozens of teenage girls miamiherald.com/latest-news/ar…
#Trump surrogate Alan Dershowitz implicated in #Trump friend/pedophile's child-sex operation, the @MiamiHerald reports. miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
Another reason ⬆️ why the Martha’s Vineyard crowd may have shunned Dershowitz. google.com/amp/s/www.bost…
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Now that billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news, it seems like a good time to take a closer look at allegations that Donald Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at Epstein's Manhattan home in 1994.

Trump is more than overdue for his #MeToo reckoning...
Important caveat: I am an activist and an attorney, not a journalist. I strongly encourage journalists to explore this further.

These claims got little attention because the accuser has remained anonymous. But new details uncovered by @MiamiHerald on Epstein bolster her story.
“Jane Doe” alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her on four separate occasions, culminating in a rape when she was just 13 at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion.

Her evidence? Three sworn declarations – from her, a friend she confided in at the time, AND one of Epstein’s recruiters.
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Trump: Day 677
-Says Manafort Pardon a Possibility
-Endorses Jailing Political Opponents
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Day 633 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Former Miami-Dade police sergeant Mike Fisten [also a homicide investigator & FBI Organized Crime Task Force member] said the FBI had enough evidence to put child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein away for a long time but was overruled by now-Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.
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In 2011, Jeffrey Epstein tried to have his sex offender status reduced in NY & now-DA Cyrus Vance argued on his behalf. The judge denied the petition, shocked that a prosecutor would make such a request for a serial sex offender who molested so many girls.
Runaway teen Virginia Roberts was working at Trump's Mar-a-Lago when she was lured by child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein into a life of depravity & sexual abuse. Epstein 'lent' her to other men, including his attorney, Alan Dershowitz.
by @jkbjournalist #Maddow miamiherald.com/news/local/art…
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Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, despite sexually abusing dozens of underage girls according to police and prosecutors. His victims have never had a voice, until now.
amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/art… ht @soychicka
On a muggy October morning in 2007, Miami’s top federal prosecutor, Alexander Acosta, had a breakfast appointment with a former colleague, Washington, D.C., attorney Jay Lefkowitz.
It was an unusual meeting for the then-38-year-old prosecutor, a rising Republican star who had served in several White House posts before being named U.S. attorney in Miami by President George W. Bush.
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Last month, the FBI released heavily redacted memos on the Epstein probe, and one offered a hint as to the reason for his lenient treatment:

“Epstein has also provided information to the FBI as agreed upon.”  thedailybeast.com/how-did-trump-…
It’s unclear what dirt he might have given the feds. Epstein was once a limited partner at Bear Stearns and abruptly quit in 1981. Around the time of his plea deal, the investment bank’s role in the subprime mortgage crisis could have been of great interest to the feds
Trump was among the child molestor's admirers. “I’ve known Jeff for 15yrs. Terrific guy,”

“He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
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