{"id":370652,"date":"2018-07-24T17:41:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T16:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lock-her-up-us-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-laughs-as-students-chant-anti-clinton-slogan-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-07-24T17:41:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T16:41:15","slug":"lock-her-up-us-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-laughs-as-students-chant-anti-clinton-slogan-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lock-her-up-us-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-laughs-as-students-chant-anti-clinton-slogan-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lock her up!\u2019 US attorney general Jeff Sessions laughs as students chant anti-Clinton slogan \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.07\/thumbnail\/5b5748dcfc7e93d40a8b457e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        US Attorney General Jeff Sessions seemed to join in as conservative teenagers chanted the former Trump campaign anti-Hillary Clinton slogan \u201cLock her up\u201d at a high school student event in Washington on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sessions was delivering remarks promoting free speech and conservative values at Turning Point USA\u2019s High School Leadership Summit at George Washington University.<\/p>\n<p>During his speech, he criticized universities for <em>\u201ccoddling\u201d<\/em> young people and said he could tell that the students in front of him were able to handle political debate and political attacks. <em>\u201cI like this bunch, I gotta tell you. You\u2019re not going to be backing down. Go get \u2018em. Go get \u2018em,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>At that moment, chants of<em> \u201cLock her up\u201d<\/em> began. Sessions, the top law enforcement official in the country, briefly joined in, laughing, before saying: <em>\u201cI heard that a long time over the last campaign,\u201d<\/em> and then continuing on with his speech.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">America&#8217;s Attorney General laughs on stage when a group of high school students start chanting &#8220;lock her up&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keep it classy, Jeff Sessions<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vfd7emOm2Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/vfd7emOm2Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014  .  (@CNNJason) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNJason\/status\/1021760240851644416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump frequently called for Clinton to be jailed and used the <em>\u201cLock her up\u201d<\/em> chant as a rallying cry at his campaign events, referring to the controversy surrounding Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also criticized Sessions himself for being <em>\u201cvery weak\u201d<\/em> on what he alleges are Clinton\u2019s crimes. Sessions appointed a federal prosecutor to look into Clinton earlier this year, but did not appoint a formal special counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Sessions echoing the students\u2019 cries of <em>\u201cLock her up,\u201d<\/em> one MSNBC commentator noted that Sessions has appeared to resist Trump\u2019s efforts to be more loyal to him personally.<em> \u201cThis looks like a total pivot in this moment for the attorney general,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the speech, Sessions said that the coddling of young people at universities was <em>\u201cactively preventing them from scrutinizing the validity of their beliefs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/434145-jeff-sessions-lock-her-up\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Attorney General Jeff Sessions seemed to join in as conservative teenagers chanted the former Trump campaign anti-Hillary Clinton slogan \u201cLock her up\u201d at a high school student event in Washington on Tuesday. Sessions was delivering remarks promoting free speech and conservative values at Turning Point USA\u2019s High School Leadership Summit at George Washington University. 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