Attorney General Jeff Sessions chuckled and repeated students on Tuesday morning as they chanted “lock her up,” in the middle of his keynote address at a conservative campus group’s summit in Washington, D.C.
The chant came as the attorney general mocked American universities for “coddling” their students.
“After the 2016 election for example the held a ‘cry-in’ at Cornell [University]. I hope they had plenty of tissues for them to cry on. They had therapy dogs at the University of Kansas. They had Play-Doh and coloring books at the great University of Michigan,” Sessions told the crowd attending Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership Summit at George Washington University.
“Well, 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 continued. “I like this bunch, I gotta tell you. You’re not going to be backing down. Go get ’em. Go get ’em.”
“Lock her up” chants then interrupted Sessions’ speech.
“Lock her up,” Sessions said, reacting with a smile and giggle.
“I heard that a long time over the last campaign,” he added.
The chant, which originated at President Trump’s 2016 campaign rallies, is a call for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton to be jailed over her use of an unauthorized private email server when she served as secretary of state.
