Keep the violent locked up, lessen the incarceration rates for non-violent offenses. Open up prison space for politicians.
Posted on 10/11/2018 11:39:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump endorsed prison reform on Thursday, warning Attorney General Jeff Sessions to get on board with the idea. Trump said he is interested in reducing sentences for people like Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender whose life sentence the president commuted in June.
“There has to be a reform because it’s very unfair right now,” Trump said. “It’s very unfair to African Americans. It’s unfair to everybody. And it’s also very costly,” the president commented on Thursday morning in a phone interview with Fox & Friends.
Trump plans to meet with hip-hop superstar Kanye West at the White House on Thursday to discuss prison reform and other issues important to the black community.
Trump questioned some of the life sentences for nonviolent drug offenders but said he would continue to be tough on crime in other ways. He noted that West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, was also pushing for prison reform.
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asked Trump for a response to Jeff Sessions, who opposed prison reform.
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Jeff WHO???
Jeff WHO???
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Ignore Sessions, appears everyone else is. Personally, President Trump should be commuting sentences of people like Johnson every week. A steady stream of them—good for everyone, a win for Trump. Maybe create a community panel to crowdsource these, with strict guidelines. More people like Ms. Johnson.
Democrats: Hey, you can’t overrule the AG!
Democrats Black Constituency: We want him to do this, why are you stopping him?
Politically Trump is BRILLIANT!
Would love to wake up to see headlines, “Sessions FIRED”, replaced with xyz conservative. Fill in the blank please!
sometimes when I read FR, I feel like I must have fallen into that hole in space where spock has a beard, and everything is backwards.
this thread is one of those times.
Correction:
Democrats: Hey, you can’t overrule the AG!
Democrats Black Constituency: We want him to do this, why are you stopping him?
Democrats: Oh, OK, you can overrule him
Trump: Great. Mueller, YOU’RE FIRED!
Politically Trump is BRILLIANT!
Trump the Just
Rats perplexed and shocked
They are sold as non-violent drug offenders.
Sadly, they have to get the money to pay somewhere, and this runs into a lot of money.
One addict can be a crime wave...
They don’t talk about that.
We usually have to talk about the Atty. General in second person, as though he’s not really there.
I think the president sent Sessions to Chicago, to encourage
Stop & Frisk policies be brought back into use.
I have heard no coverage of any related interviews Sessions has given on that topic. I don’t know if he even went to Chicago. The press would normally be on top of such meetings.
i’d like to see a few over the next couple of weeks...
Good
We need the space for traitors.
Going to be hard to keep the black voter on the plantation when Trump trumps Sessions.
How so?
I am dying to wait to see HOW Trump goes about firing him.....
The Attorney-General has a thick skin, to be so publicly rebuked as that, and still desire to remain in office.
Keep the violent locked up, lessen the incarceration rates for non-violent offenses. Open up prison space for politicians.
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