Jeff Sessions Speaks To High School Leadership Conference and Hilarity and Outrage Ensue

Attorney General Jeff Sessions emerged from an undisclosed location and spoke at the High School Leadership Summit for Turning Point USA. As he took his place at the lectern, some of the students started chanting that oldie but goodie from the 2016 campaign trail:

“Lock her up,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions says with a laugh as chant breaks out during high school leadership summit. https://t.co/dMeVjlPoyT pic.twitter.com/mTHkXTcOMk

— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) July 24, 2018

Some liberal outlets–though I’m sure Weekly Standard will not be far behind–have started claiming, like The Daily Beast, Attorney General Jeff Sessions Joins Rally Cries to ‘Lock Her Up’.

Beyond the top law enforcement officer of US chanting to lock up a (never charged) political rival of the President, why now?
He had ample opportunity on the 2016 trail. https://t.co/lHwZKokc8k

— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) July 24, 2018

The attorney general of the united states just joined a chant of “lock her up” at an event in DC.

— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) July 24, 2018

I don’t think that you can watch the video and conclude that Sessions joined in. To me, he looks sort of surprised, he says the phrase which should have been Donald Trump’s dometic policy priority and mentions the campaign. And he laughs…but who wouldn’t.

Bashing Clinton wasn’t the subject of the speech and fellow Townhall-er, Guy Benson, is speaking there later today.

This goes back to underscore the reluctance of a lot of us to cut any slack to the left on anything. As Kurt Schlicter says, these are the New Rules. This is the product of a dull, humorless, dour, totalitarian left that seeks to distort ever

With a little bit of luck, President Trump will tweet about this tomorrow and announce he’s awarding Sessions the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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