Trump later appointed Sessions Attorney General probably because he demonstrated his loyalty in this situation.  Trump fired him for recusing himself from overseeing the Mueller investigation.  Session tried to reclaim the Senate seat he vacated but lost in the primary.  Trump endorsed his opponent.  Sessions sold his soul and got nothing in return.
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Jefferson Beauregard (yep) Sessions, the Republican Senator from, no surprise, Alabama, said that the Republican nominee for  President Donald Trump’s Access Hollywood tape in which he bragged about grabbing women by the genitals wasn’t sexual assault.

What is it about these confederate wannabe’s that makes them so contemptuous of women? And why are there so many women haters in the Republican party?  In 2016!  They are sons, fathers and brothers of women.  And yet they have so little regard for women.  From shaming and blaming rape victims to vigorously enforcing the gender gap the GOP is at war with women.  All while they cloak themselves in a mantle of moral authority, wrap themselves in the flag and carry a bible under both arms.  But they sometimes reveal themselves, bigly.

“I don’t characterize that as sexual assault. I think that’s a stretch. I don’t know what he meant.”

Well one thing for sure, the Republicans found their poster boy in Trump.  And in a twist of irony you could not make up,  Sessions is on the Senate’s subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism which is over the Office of Violence Against Women.  Yes, the Jeff Sessions who told a reporter “I don’t know. It’s not clear that he — how that would occur,” when asked whether grabbing a women by her genitals was sexual assault is on a senate committee that’s supposed to formulate policies that protect women from sexual assault.