Newsmax star defends Alex Acosta’s sweetheart plea deal for Epstein — but ignores the network’s conflict of interest

Newsmax may have its own Jeffrey Epstein problem.

Over the course of the past week, its MAGA-boosting host Greg Kelly has repeatedly gone to bat for Alex Acosta, the former federal prosecutor who negotiated the secret so-called “sweetheart” plea deal with Epstein in 2008 the Justice Department later said was made in “poor judgment.”