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Exclusive - Jeff Sessions: 'Clarity of Donald Trump’s Position' on Trade Is 'Right'(tr)
Breitbart ^ | January 25, 2016 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 01/25/2016 4:26:05 PM PST by monkapotamus

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the intellectual leader of the modern conservative movement and the catalyst behind much of the rise of nationalist populism in this election cycle, told Breitbart News exclusively that he thinks there's much about 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump for voters to like when it comes to the issue of trade negotiations...

Sessions, who is standing up for American workers on this issue, told Breitbart News that the reason nobody on Capitol Hill or in the political class - save for Trump - really seems to be fighting this is "complicated," because the polling data so clearly shows Americans are widely opposed to these types of trade deals...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: sessions; trade; trump
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1 posted on 01/25/2016 4:26:06 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus

GO TRUMP!!!!


2 posted on 01/25/2016 4:27:09 PM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: monkapotamus

Nice!!!


3 posted on 01/25/2016 4:27:57 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel ("God only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defence." (Psa 62:2))
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To: monkapotamus

Globalist Ted must hate this.


4 posted on 01/25/2016 4:31:46 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: monkapotamus; RoosterRedux; Albion Wilde; hoosiermama; Amntn; RitaOK; flaglady47; HarleyLady27; ...

Sessions sends another great Trump signal!!

Go Trump!!

Go Sen Sessions!


5 posted on 01/25/2016 4:35:25 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: monkapotamus

HOORAY Sessions
HOORAY Trump


6 posted on 01/25/2016 4:37:12 PM PST by PGalt
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"Thats part of the clarity of Trumps position on all this, although I dont think I would share everything he says about trade, but fundamentally the fact that we are being taken advantage of is costing Americans jobs and weakening America."
7 posted on 01/25/2016 4:39:23 PM PST by skeeter
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To: monkapotamus

Great interview, thank you.


8 posted on 01/25/2016 4:44:23 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: monkapotamus

Wow, thanks. Hope this gets mainstream attention.

This is not good for Cruz.


9 posted on 01/25/2016 4:49:46 PM PST by KGeorge
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If anyone is afraid of a trade war, it’s too late.
We are already losing, and Obamatrade wants to unilaterally disarm us, leaving us helpless against those who would bleed our economy dry.

Marco is on the wrong side of this issue, and Ted has been on both sides.

We need someone who understands the art of the deal.


10 posted on 01/25/2016 4:51:36 PM PST by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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Thanks Jeff for your help and for sending your key staffer to help the Trump campaign.

I would put Jeff’s name in the mix for VP consideration if it goes Trump’s way.


11 posted on 01/25/2016 4:58:27 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (A)
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To: monkapotamus

Open borders crowd hates Trump.


12 posted on 01/25/2016 5:05:21 PM PST by TigerClaws
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One od Sessions; senior staff just joined Trump. Big news.


13 posted on 01/25/2016 5:08:54 PM PST by SC_Pete
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Jeff Sessions is a great American.


14 posted on 01/25/2016 5:26:03 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Trump wants to raise Tariffs.

Crummy Federal Reserve, Stock Market volatile and down, with global economic slowdown, including a slowdown in trade, then you add protectionism.

Did protectionism make the great depression? No. But it helped sustain the great depression, by adding an additional brake on trade. Tariffs become a tit for tat game which everybody eventually loses from.

Trump and Sessions are wrong or maybe Sessions is just conveniently ignoring that Trump wants to raise tariffs.

It will work like the last time Republicans favored raising tariffs, in the 1930s; which is it didn’t work.

Getting better trade agreements, and negotiating strongly to do that is one thing, unilaterally raising tariffs is neither particularly conservative or liberal; its just not smart.


15 posted on 01/25/2016 5:29:35 PM PST by Wuli
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Who around this joint thinks Trump and his 45% tariff on Chinese goods are a good idea? Now, how many believe Trump will actually try to do just that?

Your answers to those two questions will indicate what level of knowledge you have about international trade.


16 posted on 01/25/2016 5:45:19 PM PST by biff
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Ping!


17 posted on 01/25/2016 5:46:06 PM PST by Amntn ("The only special interest not being served by our government is the American people" - Donald Trump)
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To: monkapotamus

Boom!


18 posted on 01/25/2016 5:51:24 PM PST by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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Who around this joint ****

Really???? That’s what you think of Free Republic...WOW...I hope Jim sees this, providing a site that we can discuss items of news and other things, and you call it a ‘JOINT’???

That is a slam to Jim, who we all love and respect and you treat him like this....


19 posted on 01/25/2016 5:55:06 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ("The Force Awakens"!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%)
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To: monkapotamus

Big news.


20 posted on 01/25/2016 6:01:14 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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