'Targeting Epstein's 'sweetheart' deal, Senate Republican forgets who was president in 2008' [View all]

"It’s been a little weird to see just how many Republicans have, in recent years, forgotten who was president in 2020 — a problem that Joe Biden’s critics make with surprising frequency. Last week, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner went even further, suggesting that the former Democratic president was also in the White House in 2018. (He wasn’t.)"

"The problem, however, isn’t limited to GOP officials and Biden...Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to rope Barack Obama into Donald Trump's Jeffrey Epstein scandal. It went horribly awry."

"Mullin: 'In 2009 there was sweetheart plea deal that was made under the Obama administration with Epstein.'..'Remember, there was a plea deal that was struck in 2009, way before I was in office, way before Trump was even considering to be in office, way before Pam Bondi was in office, way before Kash Patel was director — 2009, there was a sweetheart plea deal that was made underneath the Obama administration with Epstein. And that sweetheart [deal] has not been exposed.' "

"Tapper: 'No, that's not right. It was 2008. The U.S. Attorney at the time was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee He went on to become President Trump's Secretary of Labor.' "

"Confronted with reality, Mullin nevertheless again said Obama was president when Epstein got his plea deal, indifferent to the fact that he was obviously and demonstrably wrong."

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