CELEBS/GOP/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said the criminal justice system was unfair to African-Americans and he would discuss remedies on Thursday [10-11-18] with musician Kanye West and former football player Jim Brown. The Republican president has advocated prison reform and said he was open to changes in sentencing guidelines, an issue that divides the Republican Party between ‘law and order’ hardliners and moderates..He said he would overrule his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who has balked at efforts to reduce sentences served by convicts and is unlikely to support new ones…Trump claims Kanye West as a friend and a ‘different kind of a guy’ whose big following in the African-American community helped boost his approval ratings. Asked if he would consider campaigning with the rapper, Trump said, ‘I could see it. I could see it.’”
–Reuters Staff, “Trump praises Kanye West, will talk justice reform at lunch,” Reuters, October 11, 2018 8:07 am