that is his choice. i serve at the pleasure of the president. he serves at the pleasure of a president who is an admitted sexual assaulter. donald trump is the only president in history who could find pleasure in having alex acosta in his cabinet. leading off our discussion are carol lam from the southern district of california and san diego superior court judge. a former attorney from the eastern district of michigan and legal contributor and ron is with us, a former senior aide to joe biden and president obama and a former chief counsel to the senate judiciary committee. barbara mcquaid, i want to start with you with your experience as a federal prosecutor. were you listening to the attorney explaining his decision not to prosecute someone in a major sex crimes case. what was your reaction to the totality of what you heard? i m ordinarily reluctant to
something that wasn t mentioned in the labor secretary s press conference about why he decided not to prosecute for sex crimes and the labor secretary was the u.s. attorney in florida. the most important thing to remember about all of the news today involving the sex crimes of donald trump s old friend, jeffrey epstein and the refusal to prosecute those alleged crimes by alex acosta when he was a federal prosecutor is that donald trump is himself an accused sexual assaulter. an accused sex criminal. he stands accused by dozens of women. donald trump does himself. most recently he was accused of deliberate forcible violent rain. and even more important than that than the accusations, the
president of the united states is a confessed sexual assaulter. i moved on her actually. she was there and moved on her and i failed. i admit it. i did try to [ bleep ] her. she was married. that s the president of the united states. and only that president of the united states would ever have considered appointing alex acosta to anything years after alex acosta was exposed as the federal prosecutor who according to a florida federal judge violated the law and the way he handled the jeffrey epstein case. i moved on her like a [ bleep ]. i couldn t get there and she was married. she now has the big phony [ bleep ]. only that presidentacosta.
of donald trump s old friend, jeffrey epstein and the refusal to prosecute those alleged crimes by alex acosta when he was a federal prosecutor is that donald trump is himself an accused sexual assaulter. an accused sex criminal. he stands accused by dozens of women. donald trump does himself. most recently he was accused of deliberate forcible violent rain. and even more important than that than the accusations, the president of the united states is a confessed sexual assaulter. i moved on her actually. she was there and moved on her and i failed.
we re used to trump being a self-admitted sexual assaulter. there s other allegations of rape. in a sworn deposition. this is one where we have witnesses. the two women that she told the two women that she told at the time have come forward to confirm her account. her account is similar. he throws women against the wall and uses his weight to told them there. sometimes he asks women to go shopping with him. this is his m.o.p. we have the extraordinary likelihood that the president is a rapist. and on both sides, there s a collective shrug. there s not a pretense that we would hold him to account or have congressional hearings or have a conversation about all