"Stonewall" Jeff Sessions leads the charge of the Trump brigade - Michael Winship, Bill Moyers
SUNDAY, JUN 18, 2017 05:59 AM EDT
“Stonewall” Jeff Sessions leads the charge of the Trump brigade
The attorney general's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee was more smoke and mirrors
MICHAEL WINSHIP, BILL MOYERS
US Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions spent Tuesday afternoon up on Capitol Hill trying out his new one-man show based on Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.
In performance before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sessions alternated between the roles of Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler, at one moment playing the testy yet coquettish belle shocked — shocked! — at having one’s integrity impugned, defending his Southern honor “against scurrilous and false allegations.”
Then the next moment, he was the charming Dixie rapscallion Rhett, acting all chummy with his good old boy pals in the Senate — once known as the world’s greatest deliberative body, a title that was forfeited several years ago.
“I was your colleague in this body for 20 years, at least some of you,” the former senator from Alabama declared, “and the suggestion that I participated in any collusion, that I was aware of any collusion with the Russian government, to hurt this country… or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process, is an appalling and detestable lie.”
As Scarlett would say, well, fiddle-dee-dee.
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