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An interesting and much-missed aspect of the Jeffrey Epstein indictment is the way Democrats and Republicans view the matter. Republican politicians and pundits have tended to focus on the legalities of the arrest, Epstein’s guilty plea, and his brief imprisonment. For Democrats, as usual, it is all about politics and power. In not recognizing this, Republicans already have suffered embarrassment and may lose their own political opportunities.
The fact is, nobody really remembered or cared who Jeffrey Epstein was until about five minutes ago.
Which is to say that last week (July 8) Geoffrey Berman, the relatively new U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), unsealed an indictment of the billionaire charging him with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy. In 2008 Epstein pled guilty in Florida state court to similar charges (soliciting sex with a minor) in return for the then U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida (former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta) dropping related federal charges.
Almost immediately the SDNY indictment set off a veritable firestorm of protest from the media and Democrats, not against the loathsome Epstein, but the man most responsible for having sent him to jail in 2008, Acosta. The ginned-up Acosta drama sucked up almost all the political air in Washington for the better part of a week, until the Labor secretary stepped down on Friday.
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See Also:
(1) Acosta’s Resignation May Result in More Losses for Prosecutors
(2) How the Epstein fortune may be up for grabs
(3) Jeffrey Epstein: Billionaire, insider, pervert pedo
(4) Prince Andrew under pressure as judge releases 2,000 files from Epstein sex scandal
(5) Epstein sent $350,000 in hush money to possible witnesses, prosecutors say
