Trump’s Pick For AG Will Have Hillary In Full Panic Mode… And She’s Not The Only One




It will be a totally different Department of Justice ...

November 18, 2016 at 8:04am

It was only minutes after the news began to circulate that liberals started griping and grousing. The man Donald Trump tapped to be the next Attorney General of the United States — Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a loyal Trump supporter and staunch constitutional conservative — would be a far different head of the Justice Department than his two predecessors.

One big part of that difference helps explain the immediate protest from the left against Trump’s nomination — namely, Sessions’ strong opinions about aggressively investigating Hillary Clinton.

On election night, almost every media figure imaginable apologized to America for getting it so wrong. There was much handwringing and second-guessing about just why they had been so blind to Donald Trump’s chances of winning the election, and they promised to do a better job.

It is now 10 days since the monumental election that made Trump our president-elect. In that short period, the media has seemingly unlearned every lesson they claimed to have taken to heart — if, indeed, they ever learned them at all.

In spite of nothing seemingly unusual about the process of Donald Trump picking his cabinet, the media continues to breathlessly report a transition team in meltdown, much the same way they would always report a Trump campaign in meltdown. And nothing better illustrates than the decision to name Jeff Sessions to the position of attorney general.

Sen. Sessions, an Alabama senator who has been an institution in the upper chamber since 1996, was a prosecutor before his time in politics. After insistent complaints that Trump should have named some cabinet members by now, when he names one — and one that was widely expected to have been in the cabinet, at that — they made a huge stink about Sessions being a racist.

Wow. Sounds pretty awful. Here’s what The New York Times had to say about it

In testimony before the committee, former colleagues said that Mr. Sessions had referred to the N.A.A.C.P., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and other civil rights groups as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired.” An African-American federal prosecutor then, Thomas H. Figures, said Mr. Sessions had referred to him as “boy” and testified that Mr. Sessions said the Ku Klux Klan was fine “until I found out they smoked pot.” Mr. Sessions dismissed that remark as a joke.

Note the “former colleagues” remark. Almost all of the accusations came from one colleague, and most of it was denied by Sessions, two things that The Times felt were somehow not worth mentioning. Also, in what context would someone saying that they liked the Ku Klux Klan “until they found out they smoked pot” not be considered a joke?

Perhaps most notably, this happened in 1986. First, for those of you who aren’t great at math, that’s thirty years ago, which means maybe it’s time to let this go.

Second, this was during the period in which the Democrat Party was engaged in an all-out assault on President Reagan’s judiciary picks, one that culminated in the infamous pillorying of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork one year later.

Of course, the big elephant in the room, so to speak — the main reason the media is pursuing Sessions’ nomination as part of the “meltdown” narrative — is what the AG nominee stated during the presidential campaign. He believes the investigation of the Clinton Foundation should continue.

“The evidence indicates to me that this should be fully investigated. I cannot say that Mr. Comey has not completed a full investigation but it seems like he has not,” Sen. Sessions told CNN back in August. “And I think there is a cloud over this and just because he might conclude there is not a chargeable offense does not indicate that there is no wrongdoing.

“This is not healthy. You do not use the Secretary of State position to benefit your private foundation,” he added.

Sessions also railed against the partial immunity granted to Clinton aide Cheryl Mills by the FBI in the email investigation and the “attorney-client privilege” Mills was able to invoke by having Clinton hire her as a lawyer.

“She should not be treated as a legitimate lawyer — she surely had a conflict of interest,” Sessions told radio host Howie Carr, according to Breitbart. “I don’t see how it is possible for someone so involved in a case that they refuse to provide testimony and information without a grant of immunity.”

So the left is really all worked up about alleged racist comments made over thirty years ago? There’s that tired old racism thing again. They’re much more likely afraid that Jeff Sessions might actually bring Hillary Clinton to justice, and who knows how many other prominent Democrats with her.

Make no mistake: Trump’s transition isn’t in disarray. The Democratic Party and liberal media are, and they’re scrambling to cover up that fact with the old-playbook distraction of griping and grousing.

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