During his congressional hearing this week, Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was asked if he stood by his 2010 assertion that expanding hate crime protections to LGBT individuals was unwarranted and possibly unconstitutional. Sessions dodged the question, simply responding, "The law has been passed, the Congress has spoken. You can be sure I will enforce it." When asked if a secular, non-religious person can have just as good an understanding of truth as a religious person, Sessions answered, "Well, I'm not sure."

And that's in addition to years of thinly veiled racial insensitivity.

As Samantha Bee said Wednesday on her first show of the New Year, the best we can hope for in the next Attorney General—assuming he is confirmed by the Senate—is "minimal, grudging tolerance." How deeply reassuring.

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But Sessions' hearing wasn't enough to distract from the bigger news of the week: a BuzzFeed dossier dump and a contentious news conference, both ludicrous—and both prophetic. Because, as Bee said, America is going to spend four more years, at least, asking itself questions like: What's more plausible, that Trump has dirty sex secrets or a dirty friendship with the Kremlin?

At least her arsenal of Trump euphemisms just got that much stronger.

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Sarah Rense Sarah Rense is the Associate Lifestyle Editor at Esquire, where she covers tech, food, drink, home, and more.

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