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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMo Brooks (AL) offers to let Jeff Sessions run for his seat again...
The Latest: Alabama lawmaker makes offer to Sessions
Source: AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions (all times local):
4 p.m.
Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks is offering to withdraw from a GOP Senate primary if all other Republican candidates also agree to withdraw, paving the way for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be the partys Senate nominee this fall.
Brooks is a Sessions ally and says he cannot remain silent about the treatment Sessions is receiving from President Donald Trump.
Trump has scorned Sessions, a former Alabama senator, as very weak and has refused to say whether hell fire the nations top law enforcement officer.
Brooks says he supports Trumps policies, but believes the presidents public waterboarding of one of the greatest people Alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of Alabama.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/5f2c1c6bb51640bb972a87a3b4ed5f3c/The-Latest:-Alabama-lawmaker-makes-offer-to-Sessions
Source: AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions (all times local):
4 p.m.
Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks is offering to withdraw from a GOP Senate primary if all other Republican candidates also agree to withdraw, paving the way for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be the partys Senate nominee this fall.
Brooks is a Sessions ally and says he cannot remain silent about the treatment Sessions is receiving from President Donald Trump.
Trump has scorned Sessions, a former Alabama senator, as very weak and has refused to say whether hell fire the nations top law enforcement officer.
Brooks says he supports Trumps policies, but believes the presidents public waterboarding of one of the greatest people Alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of Alabama.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/5f2c1c6bb51640bb972a87a3b4ed5f3c/The-Latest:-Alabama-lawmaker-makes-offer-to-Sessions
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Mo Brooks (AL) offers to let Jeff Sessions run for his seat again... (Original Post)
MelissaB
Jul 2017
OP
One would think that he coordinated with Sessions before saying something like that.
DefenseLawyer
Jul 2017
#2
riversedge
(70,090 posts)1. lordy lordy, the U.S. is going nutso!
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)2. One would think that he coordinated with Sessions before saying something like that.
Then again Mo Brooks is a blowhard, so maybe not.
old guy
(3,283 posts)3. Assuming he's not on trial of course.
C_U_L8R
(44,990 posts)4. We'd gladly take that Senate seat.
Thanks !!!
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)5. Before or after he is indicted in the Russian Conspiracy?