So ends a political career which proudly included, among many other things:
-voter suppression
-harsh drug prosecutions
-going absurdly hard on cannabis
-knowingly causing lifetime trauma to kids at the border
-trying to deport #DREAMers
Couldn't have happened to a worse person
Sessions could have retired yrs ago on his record as a racist paleoconservative Senator, but he'd had one career goal since the year I was born: running immigration enforcement.
Trump granted his wish, on the condition Jeff eat Trump's shit like it was Sunday dinner. So he did
Sessions was obsessed w/denying those brought to the US as children their #DREAM, and carried a unique hatred for the #DREAMAct. He lobbied Trump for the privilege of ending #DACA. And he happily designed Trump's family separation policy.
What does this man have against kids?
Turns out the man who said his only problem with the Klan was that they sometimes smoked weed & was deemed too racist to be appointed to the federal bench *in the '80s* found a natural home in the Trump campaign! It would prove a lead-lined coffin for his reputation and career
The only good thing that Sessions did as AG was recuse himself from the Russia investigation. He did this not because he is a good person, but bc he is an experienced lawyer who knew he had no other choice per the rules of professional conduct which govern us all.
The rest: bad
Somehow not realizing that Trump has literally never helped anyone out in any way after they quit, Sessions tried to run on his relationship with the President to gain back his old Senate seat.
Do I need to tell you what happened then, bc I really don't feel like I do
Trump despised Sessions for as long as he was AG. Trump never forgave him for the recusal, constantly talked about how he wanted to replace him with someone who would do whatever he wanted, mocked his accent and background.
Jeff just sat there and kept eating shit.
Lol well now's the time buddy
While #JeffSessions may not go down in history as Most Hateable Trump Cabinet Member (Barr's already got that on lock), his overall career is far more worthy of your contempt. There should be no place in public life for his kind, before or after retirement.
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