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Trump says man who helped convict Klan members in church bombing case is 'soft on crime'
The Fix
Trump says man who helped convict Klan members in church bombing case is ‘soft on crime’
By Eli Rosenberg November 22 at 7:00 AM
Doug Jones, the Democratic Senate candidate in Alabama, made his name as a U.S. attorney in the late 1990s when he successfully prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for the notorious 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four black girls.
The two men were convicted in cases that drew national attention; Bobby Frank Cherry died in prison 2004; Thomas Blanton remains incarcerated on a life sentence.
So it came as a surprise to many that President Trump attacked the aspiring senator as “soft on crime.”
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Eli Rosenberg is a reporter on the Washington Post's General Assignment team. He can be reached at eli.rosenberg@washpost.com Follow @emrosenberg
Trump says man who helped convict Klan members in church bombing case is ‘soft on crime’
By Eli Rosenberg November 22 at 7:00 AM
Doug Jones, the Democratic Senate candidate in Alabama, made his name as a U.S. attorney in the late 1990s when he successfully prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for the notorious 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four black girls.
The two men were convicted in cases that drew national attention; Bobby Frank Cherry died in prison 2004; Thomas Blanton remains incarcerated on a life sentence.
So it came as a surprise to many that President Trump attacked the aspiring senator as “soft on crime.”
....
Eli Rosenberg is a reporter on the Washington Post's General Assignment team. He can be reached at eli.rosenberg@washpost.com Follow @emrosenberg
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