Fox contributor blames Alex Acosta's lenient Jeffrey Epstein plea deal on a “Democratic administration.” It happened during the Bush administration.

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From the July 9 edition of Fox News' Outnumbered: 

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LAWRENCE JONES (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Well, I don't think people are taking a total look at this. Because there's a lot of things that go into these decisions. A, when it's someone like this involved, this does not skip Washington. That means that AG knew about it, that means the investigative agency, the FBI, Bob Mueller -- 

HARRIS FAULKNER (CO-HOST): Well as Christine Pelosi said, some of the faves in the Democrat Party may be on a list here somewhere. 

JONES: Exactly. Well, this was in 2008 under a Democratic administration.

FAULKNER: Right.

JONES: So it's not just [Alex] Acosta making a decision like this. Other factors go -- and if there was corruption, then every investigative agency that was involved with it, including the attorney general's office, knew something about it. 

Previously: 

Alex Jones goes to bat for employee Roger Stone, comparing judge in his criminal case to Hitler and attempting to connect Robert Mueller to Jeffrey Epstein

Fox News has barely covered the illegal plea deal Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave to Jeffrey Epstein

Media outlets host Alan Dershowitz without asking him about Jeffrey Epstein