Trump’s hard-line actions have an intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions

The following article by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa was posted on the Washington Post website January 30, 2017:

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 10. (Melina Mara/The Washington Pos1

In jagged black strokes, President Trump’s signature was scribbled onto a catalogue of executive orders over the past 10 days that translated the hard-line promises of his campaign into the policies of his government.

The directives bore Trump’s name, but another man’s fingerprints were also on nearly all of them: Jeff Sessions. Continue reading “Trump’s hard-line actions have an intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions”