The Keebler-Elf-In-Chief in action!
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III would appear to have no concerns that he might be perceived as a complete and total lickspittle, a word I use for the literal visuals it brings immediately to mind. Here’s his latest ad, reportedly airing tomorrow:
Out of the 100 United State Senators, I was the very first one to stand with @realDonaldTrump and I will keep fighting for him and his agenda. pic.twitter.com/Cf0tN8nzGl
— Jeff Sessions (@jeffsessions) November 14, 2019
The verbiage should be a source of shame, not pride, and the ad itself almost makes me hurt for the guy and his total lack of self-respect. Jeff-boy, you can still cancel the ad!
But then a reader provides this on the history of Mr. Sessions:
And he was a criminal while he was the AG of Alabama. He’d have been in prison, except that powerful friends kept him from being prosecuted. (I suspect the crimes may have been committed slightly before he became the AL AG, but am too lazy to go re-research that bit of history.)
In response to my query for more information:
Fairly well documented. Don’t know if I’ll be able to find them now, but during his confirmation hearings for USAG, a woman was arrested and charged for an expletive-like comment (i.e. the statement to which she reacted was of such blatant dishonesty and complete opposite to fact, she could hardly help herself from saying something like “bullshit” — I don’t remember what she actually said). In the reporting by a reputable paper (maybe the WaPo?) on that event, the writer explained that the women responded this way because she knew of Sessions time as AG in Alabama, where he was a whisker’s width from being charged with felonies and then miraculously the crimes were just forgotten about. I’ll see if I can find anything.
Here’s a pile of stuff to whet your appetite: https://slate.com/…/the-terrible-things-jeff-sessions…
While Slate qualifies as a news source that is on the liberal side of the spectrum, the information in the article, based on a official sources, does appear to paint a pattern of petty corruption on Sessions’ part.
In addition to his fervent loyalty to Trump during the campaign, there are several pieces of evidence from his time as Alabama attorney general that indicate Sessions would act as a rubber stamp for potential acts of executive corruption. As detailed in this new examination of archived news reports and original source documents, at least twice during his mere two years in office, Sessions produced legally flawed opinions that were favorable to Alabama Gov. Fob James that also, conveniently, aligned with the interests of one of Alabama’s most politically powerful and deep-pocketed organizations. That organization also happened to have spent substantial sums on, and taken credit for, electing James and Sessions to office.
Years later, Sessions’ legal reasoning in these opinions was overruled by broad majorities of the Alabama Supreme Court—including in one ruling written by a Republican justice.
Sessions’ brief, troubling record doesn’t end there. As a state attorney general, he also cleared the way for a politically connected insurance company’s planned no-bid coverage of state road work; urged the Alabama Ethics Commission to approve corporate-funded junkets for state employees; fought successfully against seating the first black intermediate appellate court judges in Alabama’s history; and, no joke, provided formal support for a local sheriff’s use of actual chain gangs.
While I’m aware that this could be a political hit job, his spineless whining to get his Senate seat back is certainly congruent with the implications of this Slate article.
I can’t wait to see more of his spineless ads.
