Trump’s Attorney General Pick Has A History Of Racism Allegations

Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as US attorney general.

Mr Sessions, a 20-year congressional veteran, could face resistance as he seeks Senate confirmation. “He knows the Justice Department as a former USA attorney, which would serve him very well in this position”.

“I am deeply humbled and honored to accept the position as National Security Advisor to serve both our country and our nation’s next President, Donald J. Trump”, said Flynn.

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He also once said that the Ku Klux Klan was fine by him, although he lost some respect for its members when he learned they smoked pot.

Like Trump, Sessions takes a hard stance on immigration. Assuming Sessions’ nomination is confirmed by the Senate, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley would appoint someone to fill Sessions’ seat in the short-term and schedule a statewide election to fill the remainder of Sessions’ current term, which ends in 2020.

Donald Trump has asked Rep. Mike Pompeo to be his Central Intelligence Agency director and the Kansas congressman has accepted the job, the President-elect’s transition team announced Friday.

An Army veteran, Sessions is a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and chairman of its Strategic Forces Subcommittee. After becoming the first sitting senator to endorse Trump during the primary, he advised Trump on immigration policy and chaired his national security advisory committee. He was also said to have called a black assistant USA attorney “boy” and the NAACP “un-American” and “communist-inspired”.

The attorney general heads the Justice Department, and in addition to enforcing antitrust laws, Sessions will be responsible for prosecuting white-collar crimes, among other tasks. He has spent more than 15 years in the senate, and prior to that was Alabama’s attorney general and a USA attorney.

“Jeff is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him”, Trump said.

Sessions asserted the KKK comment was simply a “joke”. People can certainly change over the course of 30 years, but despite glimmers of hope throughout his career-including his work on the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 – the overall record shows that Senator Sessions has not.

“The president-elect is a man of action, and we’ve got a great number of men and women with great qualifications who look forward to serving in this administration”, Vice President-elect Mike Pence told reporters in New York, Washington Post reported.