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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,136 posts)
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 03:01 PM Nov 2016

Jeff Sessions is Donald Trumps biggest fan. Heres how their relationship began.

This is an old article that shows a common flaw Trump has. He's too susceptible to those that kiss his ass.

The unlikely alliance between Donald Trump and Sen. Jeff Sessions started because of the United Nations.

It was 2005, and Trump was busy criticizing the U.N.’s plan to launch a $1.2 billion renovation of its Manhattan headquarters. To the real estate mogul, who had constructed Trump World Tower across the street, the price for the remodel was unreasonably high.

“The United Nations is a mess,” Trump told the New York Sun, deriding just the kind of multilateral institution he now routinely pans in his presidential bid. “And they’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars unnecessarily on this project.”

After Sessions learned of Trump’s views, the Alabama Republican and then-Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) invited him to come to Washington to talk about building renovation and air his criticism of the U.N. project at a Senate subcommittee hearing.

The result was the best congressional testimony Sessions says he had ever heard. Even now, as Trump’s sole Senate endorser and the heart of his presence in Washington, Sessions loves telling the story. That’s partly because he likes to do his Trump impression.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/19/how-the-united-nations-brought-donald-trump-and-jeff-sessions-together/?tid=a_inl#comments

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Jeff Sessions is Donald Trumps biggest fan. Heres how their relationship began. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2016 OP
I don't believe that he will survive the confirmation process virtualobserver Nov 2016 #1
 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
1. I don't believe that he will survive the confirmation process
Fri Nov 18, 2016, 03:04 PM
Nov 2016

His confirmation is the perfect place for Democrats to make a stand.

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