Over the course of the past week, its MAGA-boosting host Greg Kelly has repeatedly gone to bat for Alex Acosta, the former federal prosecutor who negotiated the secret so-called “sweetheart” plea deal with Epstein in 2008 the Justice Department later said was made in “poor judgment.”

Throughout multiple primetime segments, Kelly has described Acosta – who resigned as President Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary in 2019 amid renewed scrutiny of the Epstein plea agreement – as a “nice guy” and “great individual” who was only targeted by liberals to “embarrass” Trump by “rebooting” the Epstein story.

Kelly on Monday night suggested Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t deserve her lengthy prison sentence while claiming Acosta was the victim of “fake news” because “it wasn’t a sweetheart deal” he handed Epstein.

Left unsaid in Kelly’s efforts to rehabilitate Acosta’s reputation, amid the current uproar over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case, is that the former secretary now sits on the board of directors for Newsmax.

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