GOP senator: Booker using ‘disgraceful’ testimony against Sessions as a ‘platform’ for 2020

Published January 10, 2017 8:42pm ET



Sen. Tom Cotton blasted his Democratic colleague Cory Booker for choosing to testify against Sen. Jeff Sessions in his confirmation hearing for U.S. attorney general this week, calling it a “platform for his presidential aspirations.”

“I’m very disappointed that Senator Booker has chosen to start his 2020 presidential campaign by testifying against Senator Sessions,” Cotton wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday afternoon as the Judiciary Committee hearing took place.

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