Alex Acosta Just Delivered A Dumpster Fire Of A Press Conference
What in the world was that?!?
By JOE PATRICE
at 4:08 PM
Labor Secretary Alex Acosta showed up at his press conference today adamant that he wasn’t holding this debacle of an event to send any signals to the White House. He then proceeded to offer us an hour of him trying to send signals to the White House in a desperate bid to hold onto his own job amid heightened scrutiny of that time that he let Jeffrey Epstein get a sweetheart deal before sealing all the records and cutting Epstein’s victims out of the whole process.
If this was his pitch, expect to see him gone within the week.
A lot can happen of course. Acosta might be able to convince his boss that he needs to stay to “own the libs” or something, but based solely on that press conference Acosta tried and miserably failed to connect with Trump.
Trump, who destroyed Jeb Bush’s air of inevitability by branding him “low energy” couldn’t have appreciated Acosta’s measured, meandering effort to heap responsibility for Epstein’s ludicrous plea deal on everyone but himself. He did, however, take off his “smart person” glasses right off the bat in a clumsy attempt to look like he was “getting tough,” so there was that. What Trump wanted to see was Brett Kavanaugh throwing a sneering temper tantrum and what he got was a series of weasely “well, actually…” statements thrown together.
More:
https://abovethelaw.com/2019/07/alex-acosta-just-delivered-a-dumpster-fire-of-a-press-conference/
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