Supporters and opponents of the US attorney general have called for a boycott of the Tex-Mex restaurant that served him, then apologised for doing so
It seems the moment a member of the Trump administration walks into a restaurant, they’ve already put it in a potentially business-threatening bind. In June, the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia refused to serve the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, and was besieged with protests, boycotts and threats, forcing it to close for weeks. Now a restaurant in Texas has proudly served the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and faced much the same fate.
Sessions, who has recently been defending anti-LGBT hate groups and was one of the most steadfast supporters of the family separation policy, went for dinner at a Houston Tex-Mex restaurant, El Tiempo Cantina over the weekend. After dinner, he posed for a photo with co-owner Dominic Laurenzo and the restaurant later posted the image on their Facebook page with the caption: “We had the honor to server [sic] Mr. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General of the United States. Thank you for allowing us to serve you.”
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