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Alabama senator defends Sessions: Trump wouldn't be president without the South
« on: September 05, 2018, 03:32:41 pm »
Alabama senator defends Sessions: Trump wouldn't be president without the South
By Brett Samuels - 09/05/18 11:01 AM EDT

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Tuesday defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the South amid reporting in Bob Woodward's forthcoming book that Trump had demeaned both.

“I guess the president, he says what he thinks," Shelby told The Washington Post.

"I think the president’s probably got a lot of respect for the South, I hope so," he added. "He did well there. Without the South he wouldn’t be the president of the United States.”

The first excerpts from Woodward's new book were published Tuesday morning, and featured a handful of examples of Trump bad-mouthing his closest aides. The president mocked Sessions’ accent, and described him to a staffer as “mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner.”

“He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama,” Trump said, according to Woodward’s book.

Trump denied on Tuesday that he called Sessions "mentally retarded" or a "dumb southerner," tweeting that being a southerner is a "GREAT thing."

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Re: Alabama senator defends Sessions: Trump wouldn't be president without the South
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2018, 03:36:35 pm »
Utter bullshit.
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Re: Alabama senator defends Sessions: Trump wouldn't be president without the South
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2018, 03:43:03 pm »
Like so much of what the news reports now, Woodward's book is intended to help deliver the congress to the democrats. His bit about Trump calling Sessions a 'dumb southerner' is part of that effort.

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Re: Alabama senator defends Sessions: Trump wouldn't be president without the South
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2018, 04:15:52 pm »
If Woodward had bothered to interview Trump, he could have asked him.
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Re: Alabama senator defends Sessions: Trump wouldn't be president without the South
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2018, 04:20:11 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on September 05, 2018, 03:43:03 pm
Like so much of what the news reports now, Woodward's book is intended to help deliver the congress to the democrats. His bit about Trump calling Sessions a 'dumb southerner' is part of that effort.

Quite ironic considering how Democrats always refer to us as 'dumb Southerners'.  You know, inbred rednecks who practice the idiocy of owning guns and reading the Bible, bitter clingers and all that.
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Re: Alabama senator defends Sessions: Trump wouldn't be president without the South
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