The guy may have actually been a good labor secretary. And I think it's likely that he was probably pressured either through blackmail of himself, or blackmail of those in authority over him.  That's a very likely possibility.  Understand that the DS had hooks into almost the whole government in one way or another.  I don't like the fact that he made that shitty deal for Epstein the first go around, but I also don't know how much of a choice he was given at the time. I'd like to think that if I was him, I would have told my boss or whoever to fuck off and I'm throwing the book at this guy on sheer principle.  But shit, if you're dealing with people who will actually kill your family who knows what you'd do. In any case, I think he's got to go at some point.  Just seems like it would be easier.  But maybe he's going to testify against people who had positions of authority over him at that time.  There's a lot of things that could happen or could be true, and we just don't know anything except that he's the attorney who let the bastard off. I just don't think any of us know enough about the backstory to make a real judgment on him as a person yet.    But yeah I think that the optics are bad and at the surface it's bad no matter what.  He let the guy off at the end of the day.  So therefore I expect that at some point soon he leaves.  Guess we'll see.