Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday that President Trump’s choice of attorney general, Jeff Sessions, represents “a stab in the heart of our struggle.”
“When Trump appoints Sessions at the Department of Justice, he led the injustice drive. He called the Voting Rights Act an intrusion on states’ rights. He called the effort to end legal segregation acts of misjudging,” Jackson told John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970 in New York.
“That is a stab in the heart of our struggle,” he added, about Sessions, who was confirmed as attorney general last week.
Jackson then delved into how unlikely it was for him to work together with Trump on anything.
“Meeting with Trump is going to be a very difficult thing to do … It is going to be very difficult because Trump’s appointees are hostile to our interests,” Jackson said.
“For the Department of Education, Ms. DeVos has never ever been in the public schools,” he said of newly confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “She just bought her position in the government. Hard to discuss education with somebody with those kinds of credentials.”
