LOUISVILLE, Ky. — President Obama and his administration are ignoring the public’s pleas for better jobs, increased wages and a change in immigration and trade, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions charged Thursday.
Speaking at the 145th Annual National Rifle Association convention, the tough-talking Republican ripped Obama. “This administration has gone on strike,” he said to cheers from the thousands of NRA members.
He said Obama’s approach to governing has prompted voter anger and the rise of Donald Trump, who the NRA endorsed here earlier in the day.
“There’s a movement happening in this country. The American people are not happy. They shouldn’t be happy,” he said. “The people are determined to take our country back, it’s our country, it is.”
Sessions, who has led the Senate battle against immigration, judicial reform, and is Washington’s biggest champion of Trump, also ripped the city’s establishment. He called them “globalists, politically-correct” advocates that “sneer at our beliefs in the Constitution.”
Sessions added, “It’s time to send them packing. Let’s take our country back.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
