Jeff Sessions succumbs to peer pressure, joins high schoolers in 'lock her up' chant
He may be the highest law enforcement officer in the United States, but on Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was unable to stand up to a room full of teenagers.
While speaking to students at the conservative Turning Point USA's High School Leadership Summit in Washington, Sessions made it clear he's never watched Inside Out, railing against college students who express their feelings. "I can tell this group isn't going to have to have Play-Doh when you get attacked in college and you get involved in a debate," he said. "I like this bunch, I gotta tell you. You're not going to be backing down. Go get 'em. Go get 'em."
That's when the teens starting chanting a common refrain from President Trump's rallies about Hillary Clinton: "Lock her up!" Instead of channeling his inner Nikki Haley, who told the same audience on Monday night that true leadership involves not shouting people down but rather "showing them how it in their best interest to see things the way you do," Sessions laughed and repeated, "Lock her up." Smiling, he added, "I heard that a long time over the last campaign." Catherine Garcia
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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