Why don’t Republicans want to talk to the prosecutor who made Epstein’s ‘sweetheart deal’?

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Why don’t Republicans want to talk to the prosecutor who made Epstein’s ‘sweetheart deal’? Logic suggests the congressional investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal would include a subpoena for Alex Acosta. So what happened?

Aug. 7, 2025, 9:49 AM EDT

By Steve Benen

A couple of weeks ago, Sen. Markwayne Mullin sat down with CNN’s Jake Tapper and did his best to try to deflect blame in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The effort went quite badly , however, for an important reason: The Oklahoma Republican couldn’t quite remember who was president in 2008.

As the far-right senator tried to argue, Epstein received “a sweetheart plea deal” from prosecutors in the Obama administration, an arrangement that Mullin claimed “has not been exposed.” It fell to Tapper to remi