Sessions Spokesperson Promised Loyalty To Trump Agenda Before Being Hired

On Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks in the Lincoln Hall of Union League of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA, on February 12, 2018. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto)
On Abraham Lincolns birthday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks in the Lincoln Hall of Union League of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA, on February 12, 2018. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores, who was critical of President Donald Trump during the Republican primaries, met with Trump to tell him she was loyal to his agenda before she was hired, The Washington Post reported.

According to several people with knowledge of the meeting who spoke to the Post, Trump’s advisers knew that Sessions would only be able to hire Flores if she reassured Trump that she agreed with his agenda. She also reportedly told Trump she would be honored to serve him, according to the Post.

The revelation came as part of a Post report on Trump’s demands for loyalty throughout his presidency, most notably his reported request for allegiance from former FBI James Comey before he was fired. Trump also reportedly asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein if he was “on (his) team.”      

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  1. For traitors on the block should die;
    I am no traitor, no, not I!
    My faithfulness stands fast and so,
    Towards the block I shall not go!
    Nor make one step, as you shall see;
    Christ in Thy Mercy, save Thou me!

    RIP Margaret Pole, Lady Salisbury,

  2. Shut up!? Get out!? No Way!? Say it isn’t…oh fahgettaboutit!

  3. She also reportedly told Trump she would be honored to serve him, according to the Post.

    No returns, please ! That Trump stench will not disappear for the first 25 years, so you better get used to it…

  4. I’m beginning to have just the teensy, tiniest little bitty doubt about Harvard Law School as a bastion of liberalism. This human remora, Ms. Isgur Flores, an alumna, has variously attached herself to Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz (both alums also, too) and then, by way of Sessions, to tRump’s ample hindparts. Is there something in the water in Cambridge these days?

  5. “And this be law that I’ll maintain,
    Until my dying day, sir,
    That whatsoever king may reign,
    Still I’ll be the vicar of Bray, Sir.”

    “Vicar of Bray”

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