President Donald Trump reportedly sent a warning to his former attorney general, who is considering standing in Alabama's Republican primary for the U.S. Senate.
"I don't have an attorney general. It's very sad," Trump told Hill TV in an interview a couple of months before he fired Sessions.In February 2018, Sessions defended himself against Trump's criticisms in a statement.
"As long as I am the attorney general, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor, and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution," Sessions said. If Sessions, 72, does choose to run again in Alabama for the GOP, and risk Trump's wrath in doing so,In a 2017 special election to replace Sessions as the state's senator, Moore lost to the Democrat Doug Jones amid allegations that the Republican had been sexually inappropriate with several underage girls while in his thirties, which he denied.
A primary with Moore and Sessions, and potentially one of them taking the nomination if no other candidate scoops it ahead of them, has the potential to be a damaging affair for the Republican Party. The election is in 2021. "Even if he's completely innocent of the accusations that came to light in 2017, this move is indicative of a person whose judgment Alabamians should never trust, who is willing to turn yet another election cycle into a self-centered circus," Elizabeth BeShears, a Republican political consultant in Birmingham, toldThis combination of pictures created on August 1, 2018 shows US President Donald Trump during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington,...
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