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Attorney General Jeff Sessions chuckled and repeated “Lock her up” after the familiar Trump campaign rally chant rang out during his speech at a conservative conference for high school students on Tuesday.
The chant, President Donald Trump’s pejorative mantra against political rival Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, occurred during the attorney general’s appearance at Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership Summit in Washington.
As Sessions commended attendees for fighting for conservative values, the crowd responded with cries of “Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!”
Sessions then laughingly repeated the line.
“Lock her up,” Sessions said once, chuckling. “I heard that a long time over the last campaign.”
During his speech, Sessions decried what he sees as the silencing of young conservatives on college campuses to create a “generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes.” Sessions also praised the president, saying one of the things people liked about Trump was his willingness to stand up and express the views he thought were right.