Sen. Sessions praises Trump for calling for death penalty for innocent teens

Posted by | August 18, 2016 17:03 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


Donald Trump took an newspaper ad out calling for the death penalty for the “Central Park Five” who were later exonerated.

“That speech was great, and Trump has always been this way,” Sessions, who was the first member of Congress to endorse Trump, said on the Matt & Aunie show on WAPI radio. “He bought an ad — people say he wasn’t a conservative — but he bought an ad 20 years ago in the New York Times calling for the death penalty. How many people in New York, that liberal bastion, were willing to do something like that?”

“So he believes in law and order and he has the strength and will to make this country safer,” Sessions added. “The biggest benefits from that, really, are poor people in the neighborhoods that are most dangerous where most of the crime is occurring. And I think people can come to understand that if the message continues to pound away.”

Trump spent more than $85,000 to publish controversial full-page newspaper ads calling to “BRING THE DEATH PENALTY BACK!” The five men who were sentenced for the rape were later exonerated, but only after they had served their full sentences. The men convicted were all black and Latino and in their mid-teens.

Their wrongful conviction settlement, which ran into millions of dollars, was sharply criticized by Trump. He wrote an op-ed in the New York Daily News in 2014 calling the settlement a disgrace.

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11 responses to Sen. Sessions praises Trump for calling for death penalty for innocent teens

  1. whatthe46 August 18th, 2016 at 17:05

    FDT!!!

    • arc99 August 18th, 2016 at 17:07

      the misery of long time Republicans will be dwarfed by our own sadness if somehow, Hillary loses to this guy.

      ouch.. don’t even wanna think about it. let’s just not get complacent.

      • whatthe46 August 18th, 2016 at 17:47

        i’m not. i’m reassured everytime this dickwad opens his pie hole.

        • Suzanne McFly August 18th, 2016 at 17:56

          What do you have against dickwads? What has a dickwad ever done to you? lol

          • whatthe46 August 18th, 2016 at 18:31

            depends on the dickwad. LOL

  2. Suzanne McFly August 18th, 2016 at 17:38

    So according to sessions, it is now a conservative policy to convict innocent brown and black people, and not only convict, but to give them the death penalty. I am glad someone finally admitted what many have already known. Admitting you can’t control you addiction is your first step, congrats.

  3. Red Mann August 18th, 2016 at 20:48

    And people wonder why we despise these hateful Republican a$$holes.

    • bpollen August 19th, 2016 at 04:05

      Well, pretty much only Republican a$$holes would wonder.

      Everybody else already knows why.

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