On Epstein, Even MAGA World Can Smell That Trump Is Hiding Something

Acosta has been a hot topic ever since Comer announced his subpoena targets and Acosta’s name didn’t appear on that list. So where is he, right now? Good question. He hasn’t surfaced anywhere that I’ve seen. Interestingly, though, he did do one thing worth noting this year: He joined the board of directors of Newsmax (and chairs the propaganda network’s audit committee).

Justin Baragona of The Independent flagged on July 22 that this has created an embarrassing situation for the network because one of its hosts, Greg Kelly, keeps talking about how great Acosta is without revealing that he’s on the board.

Beyond that, we might well wonder why, of all the people Newsmax could have chosen for its board, it landed on Acosta. That was in March, though his appointment wasn’t officially announced until June. Then, in July, Newsmax announced a deal with—get this—the Trump Media and Technology Group to be partners in a new global streaming platform called Truth+. In other words, a network that covers the president is now in business with the president. And the one person in the world who knows more about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes than anyone else is on the network’s board, and thus could quasi-plausibly claim, if pressed, that he is “ethically” barred from making public utterances that would hurt Newsmax’s position. Convenient, eh?