KEEPING PROMISES - President Jeff Sessions's First 100 Days
From the failed Obamacare repeal to the rise of the ‘Goldman gang,’ Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office may have disappointed the base, but the attorney general has been keeping Trump’s campaign promises for him.
BETSY WOODRUFF
04.26.17 1:15 AM ET
Over the last 100 days, one thing has become indisputably clear: More than any other member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the keeper of the flame.
He unflinchingly advances the president’s ideological priorities and frequently appears in conservative media to tout that work. He may be better at keeping Trump’s campaign promises than the president is himself. Like Eric Holder before him, he’s the ideological lodestar to the president—a true believer’s true believer.
In the last 100 days, everyone else has disappointed. House Speaker Paul Ryan couldn’t get his House conference to repeal Obamacare. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley exchanged friendly fire on the Sunday shows over what exactly the administration wanted to do in Syria. Gary Cohn, Jared Kushner, Steve Mnuchin, and the rest of the Goldman gang have undercut Trump’s populist bona fides and reportedly muscled out the White House’s most ideological senior staff. Mike Flynn got axed, K.T. McFarland got shipped to Singapore, and Betsy DeVos—well, she’s trying.
But as bedlam has unfolded at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, six blocks east in a quiet office on the fifth floor of the imposing Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, Sessions has busily kept Trump’s campaign promises for him. The attorney general is prioritizing immigration prosecutions, delighting police unions, perusing the border to warn would-be undocumented immigrants to stay away, and rolling back the Justice Department’s litigation against voter ID laws.
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