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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-transition-confirms-flynn-sessions-pompeo
Donald Trump's transition team released a statement Friday confirming that the President-elect nominated Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as national security advisor, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) as director of the CIA, and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as attorney general.
Read the statement below:
(New York, NY) – President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that he intends to nominate U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General and U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been selected to be the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions has dedicated his life to public service. He has a distinguished legal career and has served as both the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama and Alabama Attorney General prior to his service in the U.S. Senate. He has been one of President-elect Trump’s trusted advisors on the campaign and will now continue his service as our nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
“It is an honor to nominate U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General of the United States,” said President-elect Trump. “Jeff has been a highly respected member of the U.S. Senate for 20 years. He is a world-class legal mind and considered a truly great Attorney General and U.S. Attorney in the state of Alabama. Jeff is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him.”
"I am humbled to have been asked by President-elect Trump to serve as Attorney General of the United States,” said U.S. Senator Sessions. “My previous 15 years working in the Department of Justice were extraordinarily fulfilling. I love the Department, its people and its mission. I can think of no greater honor than to lead them. With the support of my Senate colleagues, I will give all my strength to advance the Department's highest ideals. I enthusiastically embrace President-elect Trump's vision for ?one America,’ and his commitment to equal justice under law. I look forward to fulfilling my duties with an unwavering dedication to fairness and impartiality."
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We going to Africa or Nah?
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And we got ? tripping on a brother for checking a white man for calling his business team a posse.
What should we call Trump's posse, I mean team? -
This is about to get ugly.
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Inauguration Day shall not go without incident..
millions to protest
2 million 'bikers for trump' to "protect" him
expect the KKK, as well
all hell is going to break loose -
Another win for Black America! This oughta bring us all together...
In Guantanamo -
Inauguration Day shall not go without incident..
millions to protest
2 million 'bikers for trump' to "protect" him
expect the KKK, as well
all hell is going to break loose
That's an understatement! -
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-transition-defends-mike-flynn-jeff-sessionsDonald Trump's transition team pushed back on concerns about the President-elect's newly-appointed national security advisor and attorney general nominee in a conference call with reporters on Friday morning.
Transition team spokesman Jason Miller and Sean Spicer, communications director for the Republican National Committee, dismissed questions about retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who have histories of making, respectively, anti-Muslim and racist comments.
Miller praised Sessions as "someone who's universally respected across party lines in the U.S. Senate."
He listed examples from Sessions' tenure as U.S. Attorney for the southern district of Alabama and his work at the Justice Department.
"When Senator Sessions was U.S. Attorney he filed a number of desegregation lawsuits in Alabama. He also voted in favor of the thirty-year extension of the Civil Rights Act," Miller said. "He also voted to confirm Attorney General Eric Holder, and even spearheaded the effort toward awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Rosa Parks, so we feel very confident that Senator Sessions has the background and the support to receive confirmation, even going back to the points that you brought up about years ago."
He also cited a comment from the late Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) calling Sessions "egalitarian."
A Republican-controlled Senate rejected Sessions' nomination to a federal judgeship in 1986 after several U.S. attorneys testified that was hostile to civil rights cases, made racist comments and joked about the Ku Klux ? being "OK." A black lawyer testified that Sessions called him "boy" and warned him to "be careful what you say to white folks." -
But but Hillary said superpredators
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/naacp-criticizes-jeff-sessions-attorney-generalNAACP Condemns Trump's Choice Of Jeff Sessions For Attorney General
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People condemned President-elect Donald Trump’s planned nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as attorney general.
“Sen. Sessions as AG is deeply troubling, and supports an old, ugly history where Civil Rights were not regarded as core American values,” the group tweeted Friday morning, not long after the Trump transition team confirmed the Sessions selection.
Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship in 1986 but was not confirmed after attention turned to racist comments Sessions allegedly made and a poor record on civil rights as a U.S. attorney in Alabama. He also reportedly called the NAACP “communist-inspired” and “un-American,” according to the Associated Press.
"Mr. Sessions is a throwback to a shameful era, which I know both black and white Americans thought was in our past," Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) said at the time. "It is inconceivable to me that a person of this attitude is qualified to be a U.S. attorney, let alone a U.S. federal judge."
During the 1986 hearing, former assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Figures said Sessions had called him “boy” and told him to be careful about what he said around “white folks.”
Figures also said that Sessions said he thought the Ku Klux ? was “OK, until he learned that they smoked marijuana."
Sessions called his comment about the ? “a silly comment, I guess you might say, that I made.” -
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We going to Africa or Nah?
Why does it have to be "we"? How about you take the trip, set up shop and let people know when they can join you? -
They don't care because they wear the hoods themselves.
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We going to Africa or Nah?
With the way people ya'll are acting, we won't have a say in the matter. -
Where are all you ? that were screaming Obama is the president of all america for the last eight years? Trump is pushing a white agenda with zero ? given but Obama couldn't push a black one? Y'all are getting your ? wake up call, it seems like only black people push this we all in this together ? .
So don't cry now you had eight years to get him to pass bills that would benefit black people but as usual you went right to the back of the bus and let "all of America" (which apparently doesn't include black people) get the good seats -
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This is worse than Guiliani being attorney general.
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ghostdog56 wrote: »Where are all you ? that were screaming Obama is the president of all america for the last eight years? Trump is pushing a white agenda with zero ? given but Obama couldn't push a black one? Y'all are getting your ? wake up call, it seems like only black people push this we all in this together ? .
So don't cry now you had eight years to get him to pass bills that would benefit black people but as usual you went right to the back of the bus and let "all of America" (which apparently doesn't include black people) get the good seats
So you disagree with black people that say Trump getting elected is ""the best thing that could happened" for the black community?? -
ghostdog56 wrote: »Where are all you ? that were screaming Obama is the president of all america for the last eight years? Trump is pushing a white agenda with zero ? given but Obama couldn't push a black one? Y'all are getting your ? wake up call, it seems like only black people push this we all in this together ? .
So don't cry now you had eight years to get him to pass bills that would benefit black people but as usual you went right to the back of the bus and let "all of America" (which apparently doesn't include black people) get the good seats
So you disagree with black people that say Trump getting elected is ""the best thing that could happened" for the black community??
No presidential candidate has ever been good for black people but since trump is incapable of hiding his racism a lot of black people are finally starting to see this country for what it really is instead of being fooled by Hillary with her undercover racism into believing that we are actually apart of something -
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White nationalists and white supremacists are getting what they wanted.
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Amerikkka is getting what she deserves. And yet us negroes are still doing what we do best infighting and blaming. We did our part it was a smaller part than last time but we did our part. The reason Trump and his goons are in office is because the others that did or did not vote. Stop blaming our people