Another “resigned following criticism”
Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, has resigned following criticism of his handling of a 2008 plea deal with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who is awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking underage girls.
Trump announced the news on Friday with Acosta by his side at the White House. “Alex Acosta is a great secretary of labor,” Trump said. “I hate to see this happen.” He said he did not ask Acosta to leave the cabinet.
Acosta becomes the latest in a long line of high-profile officials to resign their post. The Trump administration holds the record for the highest turnover of cabinet and White House staff.
Why? Several reasons. Because Trump is a nightmare; because Trump chooses terrible people; because Trump is impossible so when underlings try to temper or get around his horribility he fires them; because Trump wants all the focus on him at all times; because of general incompetence.
Trump has since tried to distance himself from Epstein.
Announcing Acosta’s resignation, he said: “Yes, I did have a falling out a long time ago. The reason doesn’t make any difference … I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years or more. I wasn’t a big fan of Jeffrey Epstein, that I can tell you.”
Sure, he can tell us, but it’s a lie.
Trump has the sense (or has been sat down and talked to) to know that Epstein is now BAD, and that any connection to Epstein is BAD. I’m still guessing that there’s a good deal of entanglement with Epstein from which he now feels the need to disentangle. Trump’s problem is that he needs to distance himself from himself, which is much harder to do. Past Trump has a history of coming back and biting Present Trump in the ass (e.g. his self insertion into the Central Park Five case). Just because he forgets or ignores his own past doesn’t mean that everyone else is going to do him the courtesy of doing the same. That he does this forgetting from sentence to sentence just shortens the cycle, making the incoherence and self-contradiction that much more obvious.
And said Past Trump may only have been moments in the past, because Present Trump is also so terrible.
If only Trump had done the same…
He doesn’t really have to distance himself from anything. Nobody does anything to him. He acts with impunity, because no one can convince the toddler in chief that he’s always right, no matter what, he can do what he wants, moment to moment, and no one moves to curb him or stop him in any way. Doesn’t matter how short the cycles of lying get. He just lies about everything all the time, and he gets away with it.
He could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, and it wouldn’t change his popularity.
Actually, his supporters would probably blame Hillary or the fake news.