Sessions Brushes Off Trump Criticism: He Gave ‘A Good Statement’

Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R) listens to U.S. President Donald J. Trump (L) speak before Vice President Mike Pence swore Sessions in as the next attorney general in the Oval Office of the White House in Washingt... Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R) listens to U.S. President Donald J. Trump (L) speak before Vice President Mike Pence swore Sessions in as the next attorney general in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 09 February 2017. On 08 February, after a contentious battle on party lines, the Senate voted to confirm Sessions as attorney general. Credit: Jim LoScalzo / Pool via CNP - NO WIRE SERVICE - Photo by: Jim LoScalzo/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Despite criticism that the President has still not condemned white supremacy after a self-proclaimed member of the fringe group drove a car into a crowd of counter protestors at a white supremacy rally this weekend, Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the President saying he made a “very strong statement.”

“He said what happened in Charlottesville is unacceptable and we need to find out what happened, that it’s wrong and we need to study it and see what as a nation we can do to be more effective against this kind of extremism and evil,” he said on the “Today” show Monday. “It was a good statement delivered just a few hours after the event. The next day, yesterday, they explicitly called out the Nazis and the KKK.”

The hosts of the show pushed back, saying that statement came from an unnamed White House spokesperson, not President Donald Trump himself. Sessions said the name on the statement was irrelevant.

“I’m sure he will talk again about it soon. He will be speaking to the people today. I’m not sure what he will say, but that’s my understanding. He’s been firm on this from the beginning. He is appalled by this,” Sessions said.

Sessions’ rhetoric is similar to Vice President Mike Pence’s defense of the President, who said Trump “clearly and unambiguously condemned the bigotry, violence and hatred” and questioned why the media was spending more time criticizing the President’s words than “criticizing those who perpetrated the violence to begin with.”

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  1. I have no problem with this because IMO this statement was for an Audience of One.
    Everybody, friend and foe, knows what Sessions is. If he can shore up his bona fides with El Bufon, fine.
    I don’t want Sessions fired because I don’t want Mueller fired.
    A firing delayed may be a firing avoided. Eventually it’ll be too late for Trump to do it.

  2. Sessions is no hero. The lesson he learned from Donnie’s rage over his decision not to obstruct the Mueller investigation is ‘fellate the boss at every public occasion’.

  3. Sessions "questioned why the media was spending more time criticizing the President’s words than “criticizing those who perpetrated the violence to begin with.” Well, that would be because he failed utterly to condemn white extremism, that’s why, you depraved little elf.

  4. “I’m sure he will talk again about it soon. He will be speaking to the people today. I’m not sure what he will say, but that’s my understanding. He’s been firm on this from the beginning. He is appalled by this,” Sessions said.

    Says the guy who yesterday said everyone is making too big a deal about this.

    Oh, and if he was firm on this from the beginning…that he is appalled by this…you wouldn’t be fielding this question in the first place, you moronic little gnome.

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