Jeff Sessions, Civil Rights Champion!

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., talks about what they hope to hear in the address of President Barack Obama to the joint session of Congress and where they hope to work with the president to create private sector jobs on... Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., talks about what they hope to hear in the address of President Barack Obama to the joint session of Congress and where they hope to work with the president to create private sector jobs on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) MORE LESS
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One of the outside groups supporting Jeff Sessions nomination as attorney general is running a TV ad in DC titled “Champion” that calls him a “civil rights champion” and associates him in images with Barack Obama, Joe Biden and John Lewis. It’s a remarkable re-write of Sessions’ life and career:

The group running the ad is the 45Committee (Trump is the 45th president), a 501(c)(4) organization and doesn’t have to disclose its donors publicly.

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