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Judd Legum
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1. Serial child abusers can't operate alone. They need people to protect them.

Alex Acosta, who is currently Trump's Secretary of Labor, helped protect Jeffrey Epstein from the consequences of sexually abusing dozens (maybe hundreds) of teen girls

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2. As U.S. Attorney in Miami, Acosta could have put Epstein away for life. Instead, he agreed not to prosecute Epstein in exchange for him pleading guilty to two prostitution counts.

Epstein's victims were not prostitutes. They were girls.

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3. Epstein ended up serving 13 months. But most of that time wasn't even spent behind bars. He was allowed to spend 12 hours a day in a luxury office he set up on "work release." This was allowed even though sex offenders aren't eligible for work release

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4. To give Epstein this sweetheart deal Acosta BROKE THE LAW, according to a federal judge. He agreed to not contact the victims about the plea deal even though it is required under the Crime Victims Rights Act.

Acosta has not explained why he did this. popular.info/p/protecting-s…
5. Should someone who broke the law to protect a serial pedophile be in charge of overseeing child trafficking laws?

That's the situation we find ourselves in with Acosta.

Trump has brushed it off, saying it happened "a long time ago."

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6. Trump was friends with Epstein and joked about his sexual habits.

"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. 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"

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7. But more important than Acosta's illegal acts is the fact that Epstein is now a free man, living on a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Girls are at risk.

He needs to finally be prosecuted, in Florida or elsewhere.

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Paul Manafort was just sentenced to less than 4 YEARS for committing multiple felonies, including tax and bank fraud

Crystal Mason is serving FIVE YEARS for trying to vote in the 2016 election. (She didn't realize she was ineligible due to a prior conviction.)
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1. It kind of floats by like every other scandal but the family separation crisis is on another level

The Trump administration has done lasting damage to thousands of kids

And Secretary Nielsen's testimony yesterday was seriously disturbing

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2. First, Nielsen STILL will not admit that the Trump administration every had a policy of separating children.

Despite admitting that thousands were separated

And despite a memo that shows DHS explicitly making the choice.

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3. Nielsen admitted that, before implementing a policy separating thousands of children, she was not familiar with the basic research about how that impacts kids.

All these months later, she still hasn't bothered to learn about it.

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Judd Legum
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It’s possible to believe both:

1. @IlhanMN shouldn’t use language that evokes dual loyalty, which has roots in anti-Semitism

2. @IlhanMN shouldn’t be singled out for rebuke by the House when the racism, sexism, homophobia and deplorable conduct of other members is ignored
This is a clarification of an earlier tweet which obscured @IlhanMN’s actual quote: “I should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress.”
This is a good column by @mehdirhasan on the hypocrisy of Congress singling out Omar goo.gl/dQTWrp
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Roger Stone wasn't the only big case today. A victory!

Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein
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Not a total victory; still good tho

"the decision marks a victory for crime victims...stopped short of overturning Epstein’s plea deal, or issuing an order resolving the case...prosecutors 15 days to confer with Epstein’s victims and their attorneys to come up with a settlement"
I hope they can

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An Epstein sex case is settled; Dershowitz denies latest allegation...in which he wasn’t actually accused. miamiherald.com/latest-news/ar…
Accused sex traffickers Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have settled a federal civil lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was ordered under threat of violence to have sex with them and other influential individuals when she was in her early 20s, sources confirmed Wednesday.
Sarah Ransome, who now lives in Barcelona, claimed she was recruited and trafficked for sex by the pair in 2006 and 2007 — at the same time Epstein was under federal investigation for sexually assaulting and molesting dozens of underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion.
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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.
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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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Alexander Acosta, Trump's Secretary of Labor, has ties to Charles Koch through
George Mason University School of Law. This is only one of many cabinet positions and heads of agencies that are Koch'd-up in Trump's administration. #UnKochAmerica
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But do you know what else Acosta is mixed up in?
Jeffrey Epstein's "sweetheart deal" (Trump: "terrific guy") i.e. light sentence he received in a #Florida court battle over allegations that he sexually abused more than 40 minor girls, most of them between the ages of 13-17.
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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