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Sessions' gift to DeBlasio

artappraiser — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 01:14:26 +0000

Sessions' gift to DeBlasio

....When the Justice Department accused New York City of being “soft on crime” last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio called it an insult. But in political terms, for a mayor seeking re-election as a progressive defined by his defiance of President Trump, the swipe from the federal government was more like a gift.

It allowed Mr. de Blasio, in one moment, both to burnish his anti-Trump credentials and to wrap himself up in police uniform blue.

The mayor, a Democrat, wasted no time on Friday in summoning the news media to Police Headquarters in Manhattan, where he stood beside his police commissioner, James P. O’Neill. Mr. de Blasio shot back at Mr. Trump and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who had sent New York and several other cities and jurisdictions a letter renewing threats to cut federal grant money if they did not remove communication barriers between the local police and immigration authorities....

from NYTimes

Tweet from Assistant

artappraiser — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 02:48:34 +0000

In reply to And Sessions did feel the

Tweet from Assistant Commissioner for Communication & Public Information @NYPDNews. Fmr spox @NewYorkFBI.:

Did DOJ really say the NYPD is soft on crime?
— J. Peter Donald (@JPeterDonald) April 21, 2017

And Sessions did feel the

artappraiser — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 02:03:27 +0000

In reply to Sanctuary mayors fire back at Trump administration over immigration

And Sessions did feel the need to backtrack on the NYC/ NYPD policies after DeBlasio blasted him about how stoopid what he said was--

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/330025-sessions-praises-new-yorks-policing-policies-amid-sanctuary

Made me think about how many of these mayors are very savvy guys at the whole governing thing and Trump idiots better think twice about tangling with them.