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Jeff Sessions executed the agenda of a president who could not look past a betrayal

November 9, 2018 straitstimes Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The night before he was fired, Attorney-General Jeff Sessions was in high spirits. He was watching the midterm election results at the Justice Department with his wife and staff members, according to two people present, and enjoying a final, welcome evening of normalcy before President Donald Trump abruptly ended his bumpy tenure on Wednesday (Nov 7) as the United States’ highest law enforcement officer. While Sessions, 71, did more to carry out Trump’s agenda than almost any other Cabinet official, delivering on immigration and combating violent crime and opioids, he also soured their relationship after only weeks in the position by recusing himself from the Russia investigation. The president, who has made clear that he expected protection from his law enforcement officials, viewed the step as a betrayal. “The one laudable thing he did was to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, and for that, he is being fired,” said Vanita Gupta, a frequent critic of Sessions and the chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Trump installed Sessions’ chief of staff, Matthew G. Whitaker, who had served as a liaison to the White House and gained the president’s trust, as acting attorney-general. Though Sessions quickly lost Trump’s support, he focused on accomplishing his agenda. Sessions established a zero-tolerance policy for unauthorised immigration that filled courtrooms along the southern border. He cracked down on MS-13 gang members. And he gave federal prosecutors more resources to fight the opioid crisis. Some Justice Department employees… [Read full story]




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