Alex Acosta Weirdly Pretends Child Rape Charges Would Involve 'Victim Shaming'
The worst part of the whole Jeffrey Epstein/Alex Acosta sweetheart deal is that young girls were manipulated and used until Jeffrey Epstein finally decided to rape them, yet no official will come out and say that when discussing the sweetheart deal Alex Acosta approved without ever notifying Epstein's rape victims. It is as if by not saying the word "rape" they can look away from the harm and damage done, and that is exactly how Epstein approached his command performance at a press conference earlier Wednesday.
Here's his excuse in a nutshell, as stated in the presser with many more words: I, Alex Acosta, saw that the Palm Beach prosecutor was cutting a terrible deal, so we stepped in and offered a slightly less terrible deal. He delivered this excuses in an emotionless monotone.
In the clip above, he excuses the lack of prosecutorial fervor for actually trying Epstein and putting him in jail. Earlier in the press conference, he said his only message to other Epstein victims was to "come forward." The victim who was interviewed this morning did finally come forward, Acosta shamed her by saying she should have come forward sooner.
When a journalist pinned him down on this, specifically asking why he should when nothing came it, Epstein tried to answer by scrunching up time, so that suddenly 2006 was just like 1951, where child rape victims were run out of town on a rail.