Intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions
By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa January 30 at 5:50 PM
In jagged black strokes, President Trumps signature was scribbled onto a catalogue of executive orders over the past 10 days that translated the hard-line promises of his campaign into the policies of his government.
The directives bore Trumps name, but another mans fingerprints were also on nearly all of them: Jeff Sessions.
The early days of the Trump presidency have rushed a nationalist agenda long on the fringes of American life into action and Sessions, the quiet Alabamian who long cultivated those ideas as a Senate backbencher, has become a singular power in this new Washington ...
In an email in response to a request from The Washington Post, Bannon described Sessions as the clearinghouse for policy and philosophy in Trumps administration, saying he and the senator are at the center of Trumps pro-America movement and the global nationalist phenomenon ...
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