Article snippet: Jeffrey Epstein after the billionaire was charged Monday with sex trafficking. MORE, who as a U.S. attorney oversaw a favorable 2008 plea deal for Epstein, is likely to face growing pressure as new details emerge about the financier’s alleged victimization of young girls in New York and Florida. House Democrats have renewed their calls for Acosta to step down, and some of Trump's allies view the Labor secretary as a political liability moving forward. “The president's going to be furious,” said former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg. “I can’t imagine that he’s going to stay there for very long.” Nunberg noted that it’s the Trump administration's Justice Department pursuing fresh charges against Epstein. “I'm going to give the president the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t know about the Epstein issue when he nominated Acosta,” Nunberg said. “I don’t know why he was confirmed.” The Senate confirmed Acosta in April 2017 by a 60-38 vote. A few senators who voted to confirm Acosta have celebrated Epstein's arrest, but none of them have called for the Labor secretary to step down. House Democrats, several of whom urged Acosta to resign in the wake of a Miami Herald report published earlier this year, revived their calls on Monday for the Labor secretary's ouster. “The new sex trafficking charges announced today make it agonizingly clear that Acosta failed to deliver true justice for the underage girls Jeffrey Epstein mercilessly exploited,” Rep. MORE (D-Fla.) tw... Link to the full article to read more
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