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President Obama standing alongside Attorney General Eric Holder in 2013.
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It became clear this week that Trump and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, aren't seeing eye to eye. Instead of addressing this behind closed doors, Trump took to Twitter to intimidate and threaten him. The barrage of attacks would later be described by Sessions as "hurtful" — and was widely seen as Trump trying to intimidate his own cabinet member into quitting so he did not have to take on the public scrutiny that would come with another firing. Souza's response? To show us the wholly civil relationship that Obama and his own attorney general had after not just a couple months — but more than a couple years.