{"id":125082,"date":"2019-07-12T17:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T21:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125082"},"modified":"2019-07-12T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T21:38:34","slug":"acosta-was-unfit-to-be-a-public-servant-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=125082","title":{"rendered":"Acosta was unfit to be a public servant | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY THE MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD<\/p>\n

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President Trump, who expressed support for Alex Acosta, said that Acosta made the decision himself to step down as secretary of Labor. MARK WILSON GETTY IMAGES<\/p><\/div>\n

It was never a matter of \u201cif,\u201d but \u201cwhen\u201d Alex Acosta would step down in the days after sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

Acosta, the U.S. secretary of Labor did resign on Friday \u2014 two days after he tried to make a logical case for the lenient deal he gave Epstein \u2014 which he didn\u2019t; six days after Epstein\u2019s arrest in New Jersey; six months after the Herald Editorial Board said Acosta should resign; and 11 years after Acosta did little to land Epstein \u2014 alleged to have sexually molested or raped dozens of young girls, some barely in their teens, at his mansion in Palm Beach County \u2014 in prison for a long time.<\/p>\n

He broke faith with the young victims of whom Epstein took advantage. Acosta thought so little of them that he didn\u2019t deem it important enough to inform them that Epstein was going to jail for a ridiculously short period of time. Just this past February, a federal judge in Florida ruled Acosta\u2019s egregious misstep illegal. Now that he has resigned as labor secretary, how will Acosta be held accountable for that arrogant lapse?<\/p>\n

Acosta also failed the broader public, in letting a wealthy man whom he forced to register as a sexual offender to be released, free to continue his crimes if he desired, if not in Florida, then anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

Continue reading at: https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article232598287.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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BY THE MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD It was never a matter of \u201cif,\u201d but \u201cwhen\u201d Alex Acosta would step down in the days after sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s arrest. Acosta, the U.S. secretary of Labor did resign on Friday \u2014 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}