MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under ObamaTAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of laborM: Who was in office at the time?T: BushM: No. Obama was in officeTAPPER: Not true
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-27T13:22:11.390Z
Holy shit — Markwayne Mullin insists later in the interview again that Obama oversaw actually oversaw the sweetheart deal with Epstein, even after Tapper (accurately) fact-checked him. Yikes.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-27T13:24:25.876Z
