GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions: Grabbing By The P***y Is Not Sexual Assault (VIDEO)

What a week. First there was Trump video leak, all the reaction to it, and finally topped off by another contentious debate.

Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions is at it again. Whenever Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says something offensive, hateful, or just plain wrong, he has been there to defend him. He was quick to jump to Trump’s aid when he attacked the parents of Captain Humayun Khan, an American soldier who died fighting for his country.

During a post-debate interview with conservative publisher The Weekly Standard, Sessions was asked about Trump’s lewd comments in a leaked video in which he said inappropriate things about assaulting women and treating them like objects. You know, the one where Trump says that he can kiss or grab any woman he wants by the genitals just because he is a star?

Well Senator Sessions took his Trump-apologist behavior to a new low when the interviewer asked if what Trump was talking about is sexual assault. His response is reprehensible. Here is the exchange:

SESSIONS: This was very improper language, and he’s acknowledged that.

INTERVIEWER: But beyond the language, would you characterize the behavior described in that as sexual assault if that behavior actually took place?

SESSIONS: I don’t characterize that as sexual assault. I think that’s a stretch. I don’t know what he meant—

INTERVIEWER: So if you grab a woman by the genitals, that’s not sexual assault?

SESSIONS: I don’t know. It’s not clear that he—how that would occur.

Wait, what? Grabbing a woman’s genitals without her consent IS sexual assault. Once news of Sessions’ comments hit the internet, the response was swift with condemnation.

Senator Sessions isn’t even the first to try and come up with excuses for Donald Trump’s inexcusable behavior, but he’s got a little bit of hypocrisy that makes this instance even more disgusting. Sessions was a part of the Victims of Child Abuse Act while in Congress, which was supposed to help stop child physical and sexual abuse.

Disgraceful. Just disgraceful.

 

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