NYT’s Peters: Sessions’ ‘Learned the Hard Way that If You Cross Pres. Trump, There’s No Coming Back’

‘I don’t see really much of a future for him in Donald Trump’s Republican party’

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PETERS: "Donald Trump was still a Democrat when Jeff Sessions helped block the immigration reform bill in the Senate in 2007. And Donald Trump was still hosting the 'Celebrity Apprentice' when Jeff Sessions hired a young man named Stephen Miller to be on his staff and introduced him to the conservative political world. So, Donald Trump owes Jeff Sessions a great debt here as far as a political legacy and an ideology to bring voters to his side. Unfortunately for Jeff Sessions, the voters didn’t seem to really care about that once Trump threw him under the bus for doing, Andrea, what most people, Republicans included, will privately say was the right thing to do under the circumstances, when he was Attorney General overseeing an investigation that he would be a part of. So Jeff Sessions’ career ends after three decades in public service in Alabama, and I don’t see really much of a future for him in Donald Trump’s Republican Party because he’s learned the hard way that if you cross President Trump, there’s really no coming back from that."

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