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Demsrule86

(68,565 posts)
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 10:31 AM Nov 2016

Trump Offers Jeff Sessions Attorney General Job

This is why we fight. Trump is putting an unrepentant racist in the AG office

...Back in the mid-1980s, when Sessions was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, President Ronald Reagan nominated him to become a federal judge. But during the nomination process, allegations emerged that Sessions had called a black attorney “boy,” that he suggested a white civil rights lawyer was a race traitor, that he joked he liked the Ku Klux Klan until he found out they smoked marijuana and that he referred to civil rights groups as “un-American” organizations trying to “force civil rights down the throats of people who were trying to put problems behind them....”


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-donald-trump_us_582dfe2ce4b058ce7aa9c597?wzxl34u26mnqgds4i

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Trump Offers Jeff Sessions Attorney General Job (Original Post) Demsrule86 Nov 2016 OP
"what do you have to lose?" lapfog_1 Nov 2016 #1
You are exactly right. Demsrule86 Nov 2016 #6
Just saw that on Twitter Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2016 #2
Yes it is...and it shows what Trump is truly trying to do. Demsrule86 Nov 2016 #5
The man who is named after 2 traitors? Botany Nov 2016 #3
That is right. Demsrule86 Nov 2016 #4
Loyalty above all else. The Don requires that. wisteria Nov 2016 #7
In fact, it appears to be his sole criterion in deciding how to COLGATE4 Nov 2016 #9
The Senate refused to confirm him to a Federal COLGATE4 Nov 2016 #8
Hell on earth. Demsrule86 Nov 2016 #10

Demsrule86

(68,565 posts)
6. You are exactly right.
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 10:42 AM
Nov 2016

Trump is a racist piece of shit and must be opposed period...do not work with him Democrats or you too will be poisoned with his hatred of others.

Demsrule86

(68,565 posts)
5. Yes it is...and it shows what Trump is truly trying to do.
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 10:41 AM
Nov 2016

Make America white again...Sessions would be in charge of civil rights...open season on minorities.

Botany

(70,504 posts)
3. The man who is named after 2 traitors?
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 10:39 AM
Nov 2016

Jefferson as in Jefferson Davis the President of the Confederate States of America and Beauregard
as in Gen. P.T. Beauregard who led an armed rebellion to end the United States of America and
for the right for people to own slaves.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
9. In fact, it appears to be his sole criterion in deciding how to
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 11:52 AM
Nov 2016

fill posts in his 'administration'. It's the only qualification.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
8. The Senate refused to confirm him to a Federal
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 11:51 AM
Nov 2016

judgeship so he's obviously well-qualified to be Attorney General. It's going to be a very, very long four years.

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