Trump says man who helped convict Klan members in church bombing case is 'soft on crime'

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Trump says man who helped convict Klan members in church bombing case is ‘soft on crime’

By Eli Rosenberg November 22 at 7:00 AM

Doug Jones, the Democratic Senate candidate in Alabama, made his name as a U.S. attorney in the late 1990s when he successfully prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for the notorious 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four black girls.

The two men were convicted in cases that drew national attention; Bobby Frank Cherry died in prison 2004; Thomas Blanton remains incarcerated on a life sentence.

So it came as a surprise to many that President Trump attacked the aspiring senator as “soft on crime.”
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Eli Rosenberg is a reporter on the Washington Post's General Assignment team. He can be reached at [e-mail] Follow @emrosenberg