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I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

I have a lot to get to on today's show.

The big breaking news, of course, is that the Secretary of Labor, Alex Acosta, is out. Thanks to the Jeffrey

Epstein scandal, he has now resigned. His resignation will be effective within the week, basically

has seven days to get out. Now, Trump is saying that this was Alex Acosta's decision. The truth is

that it may not have been. Acosta was creating so much pressure for Trump that it made a lot

of sense for him to go.

There are just too many unanswered questions about how exactly the sweetheart deal with alleged

pedophile. Jeffrey Epstein went down. He's a registered sex offender in several states.

Jeffrey Epstein, he got this pretty sweet deal from the prosecutors in the state of Florida.

Alex Acosta was one of those prosecutors. Now, the case against Acosta, that he had cut some sort of sweetheart deal, it wasn't quite as cut and dry as I think a lot of people would like to make it. There are a few contentions that Acosta made in his own defense that are relevant and may in fact be true. One is that we just haven't seen all the underlying evidence in the case. We don't know how strong that evidence was. There were a lot of witnesses who said that Acosta did things to them,

but that doesn't necessarily amount to a sex trafficking charge. It may amount to a sexual molestation

charge on the state level, but that's a state level charge. The trafficking charge is the federal

charge and the prostitution across state lines charge,

that is the federal charge and that's what Acosta was tasked with. The real question that I have

is why the state of Florida didn't go after Epstein. If it was so cut and dry that there were all

these women coming forward and they had the evidence that all these women were telling the truth,

why was he not in jail for statutory rape at the very least for an extended period of time or child molestation for an extended period of time? Those are state crimes. In any case, Acosta made the defense that other prosecutors signed off on this, the judge signed off on this, that deals like this happen on a fairly regular basis. That may be true. I've talked to several prosecutors. Some say true. some say not true. There are a couple of things that he said in his own defense that do not ring true. He said, for example, that he only stepped in with the federal government and the power of the DA when it became clear that the state was not going to prosecute Epstein. That's an odd contention because the feds and the state work on different levels. You don't have to wait for the

state to not prosecute in order to prosecute at the federal level. That would actually be looking

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