Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Reporter points out to Alex Acosta that he hasn't apologized to Epstein's victims. In his response, Alex Acosta does not apologize to Epstein's victims.
3:10 PM · Jul 10, 2019 · Twitter Web Client

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1149033081103355907

Jesse Rodriguez
@JesseRodriguez
Then he did it again -- in Spanish!

https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1149034637399863297

“The kidney, very special, the kidney has a very special place in the heart. It’s an incredible thing. … There’s a spirit like you see rarely,” Trump said, according to CBS reporter Kathryn Watson.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/pee-is-close-to-his-heart-the-internet-erupts-over-bizarre-trump-rant-about-kidneys/

Trump acted like a ‘total beast’ at cocaine-fueled parties with girls as young as 15 years old

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-acted-like-a-total-beast-at-cocaine-fueled-parties-with-girls-as-young-as-15-years-old-report/

The future president and Epstein reportedly were the only two guests at one Mar-A-Lago party, in 1992, where Trump arranged to have 28 women flown in for a “calendar girl” contest, which calls to mind some reporting that came out just ahead of the 2016 election.

According to Michael Gross, who has covered the real estate developer and former reality TV star since 1985, Trump was once known for throwing cocaine-fueled parties where teenage models were introduced to the real estate developer’s rich, older friends, reported The Daily Beast in October 2016.

The photographer and a male model who attended the parties said they never saw Trump use drugs himself, but they said “he was getting laid like crazy.”

“Trump was at the heart of it,” the photographer said. “He loved the attention and in private, he was a total f*cking beast.”

Seung Min Kim
@seungminkim

New - Labor Secretary Alex Acosta plans to hold a press avail at 2 p.m. today. NOT to resign, but to answer questions and defend his record on his handling of the Epstein matter, according to an official familiar with the plans.

10:30 AM · Jul 10, 2019 · TweetDeck

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1148962781640712195

Seung Min Kim
@seungminkim

Update - Labor says media avail is at 2:30 p.m.

10:53 AM · Jul 10, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone

Seung Min Kim
@seungminkim

Ha it looks like Acosta took the advice of @SenJohnKennedy ...

Burgess Everett
@burgessev
· 21h

Sen. Kennedy says Secretary Acosta should hold a press conference this afternoon on Epstein

Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
Acosta was pushed into doing press conference by POTUS, per ppl briefed. POTUS is following the news coverage closely. Acosta wants to defend self now but also has few fans in Mulvaney-run White House.
11:04 AM · Jul 10, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1148971216637714432

Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
POTUS, ppl close to him have said, is monitoring the television closely. The more he sees Acosta name coming up in Epstein coverage, the less safe Acosta becomes.
11:20 AM · Jul 10, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1148975164954238976

Trump told reporters at the White House that Acosta has been a “very good” Labor secretary and that Acosta probably wished he had handled the Epstein plea deal “a different way.”

The president added that he would be looking at the case “very carefully.”

“I feel very badly, actually, for Secretary Acosta because I’ve known him as being somebody that works so hard and has done such a good job,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with the emir of Qatar.

The president also sought to distance himself from his onetime friend Epstein. The two men used to socialize together in Palm Beach, Fla.

“He was a fixture in Palm Beach. I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I don’t think I’ve spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn’t a fan,” Trump said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/452202-trump-defends-acosta-amid-epstein-scrutiny

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Trump just now in the Oval: "I feel very badly, actually, for Secretary Acosta."
Via ABC

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1148636885117493249

erica orden
@eorden

A DOJ official says that Barr has consulted with career ethics officials at DOJ and he will not recuse from the Jeffrey Epstein case in
SDNY, @evanperez reports.

Barr has been & will remain recused from any retrospective review of the resolution of the earlier case in Florida.

10:57 AM · Jul 9, 2019 · TweetDeck

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1148606992308670464

President Donald Trump reacted in “outrage” to a misleading Fox News report about the Pledge of Allegiance — and he was buried in ridicule.

City Council members in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, voted last month to stop reciting the pledge ahead of their public meetings, but they’re reconsidering the decision after it prompted local and national controversy.

“Fox & Friends” inaccurately reported that the City Council had “banned” the pledge, and the president took the bait in a Tuesday morning tweet.

“Outrage is growing in the Great State of Minnesota where our Patriots are now having to fight for the right to say the Pledge of Allegiance,” Trump tweeted. “I will be fighting with you! @foxandfriends”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-roasted-for-stoking-manufactured-outrage-by-hyping-misleading-fox-friends-report-on-pledge-of-allegiance/

Tom Tomorrow
@tomtomorrow

President's a rapist who keeps children in cages but oh look over there everyone a fuckin city council somewhere decided not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance like schoolchildren at the beginning of their meetings

8:28 AM · Jul 9, 2019 · Twitter Web Client

https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/1148569495054770176

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/photo-shows-trump-dining-on-monday-with-billionaire-charged-with-prostitution-and-its-not-jeffrey-epstein/

Justin Sink
@justinsink
·
9h

that’s patriots owner robert kraft (!) at the same table as the president at tonight’s dinner for the emir of qatar

https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1148376655364284417

Remarks by President Trump in Meeting on Human Trafficking on the Southern Border
LAW & JUSTICE
Issued on: February 1, 2019

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-human-trafficking-southern-border/

Human trafficking is worse now than it’s ever been in the history of our world. It’s a world problem. It’s a U.S. problem, but it’s a world problem, caused, to a certain extent, by the Internet. One of the reasons that we have it so bad is the Internet. That’s why it’s picked up tremendously over the last five years, because of the Internet.

My administration has made the fight against human trafficking one of our highest priorities.