{"id":136905,"date":"2018-09-05T00:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T06:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/trump-claims-he-never-called-insulted-sessions-that-way.html"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:55:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T01:55:02","slug":"trump-claims-he-never-called-insulted-sessions-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/trump-claims-he-never-called-insulted-sessions-that-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims he never called insulted Sessions THAT way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can only assume he&#39;s afraid he\/the GOP will lose some Southern voters if people actually believe he derided Sessions as a &quot;dumb Southerner.&quot; I mean, he&#39;s lambasted the AG every other possible way, why not take ownership of this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/405093-trump-denies-calling-sessions-mentally-retarded-dumb-southerner'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ea1kY5JeuhZoJUHTZpiO7rtKcvb1cHWPbYTF2wZv7LKkWYLha44SV4DGSKmGNsp44xiT15ICABm7D6O5pUKiI7bfFiPsOMI2IIGBZIOMAAEFv8xL6JAuwYW9=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/405093-trump-denies-calling-sessions-mentally-retarded-dumb-southerner'>Trump denies calling Sessions &#8216;mentally retarded,&#8217; &#8216;dumb Southerner&#8217;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nPresident Trump in a tweet Tuesday night denied allegations in reporter Bob Woodward&#8217;s forthcoming book that he called Attorney General Jeff Sessions &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; and a &#8220;dumb Southerner.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/g9gc5zUWqhk'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can only assume he&#39;s afraid he\/the GOP will lose some Southern voters if people actually believe he derided Sessions as a &quot;dumb Southerner.&quot; I mean, he&#39;s lambasted the AG every other possible way, why not take ownership of this? Trump denies calling Sessions &#8216;mentally retarded,&#8217; &#8216;dumb Southerner&#8217; President Trump in a tweet Tuesday night &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/trump-claims-he-never-called-insulted-sessions-that-way.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump claims he never called insulted Sessions THAT way&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132060,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/18\/trump-nominates-alabama-senator-jeff-sessions-as-ag.html","url_meta":{"origin":136905,"position":0},"title":"Trump nominates Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as AG","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Nov-16 7:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"The best thing I can say for Jeff Sessions as a nominee for Attorney General is that he's not Rudy Giuliani. 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