Donald Trump will campaign against his first AG Jeff Sessions in his Alabama hometown with a rally next month backing Republican primary opponent
- Trump is planning to hold a campaign rally in Mobile next month
- His first rally since the pandemic hit is set for Tulsa on Saturday
- Sessions is running to reclaim his old Senate seat and faces former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville in a GOP runoff
- Trump railed against Sessions during his tenure for recusing himself from the Russia probe, which Trump calls a witch hunt
- Sessions says his decision ‘protected the rule of law and resulted in your exoneration’
- Trump backs former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville
President Donald Trump has scheduled a stop on his resumed campaing rally tour that will give him the chance to exact political vengeance on his former attorney general Jeff Sessions Alabama.
Trump’s campaign is expected to take him to Mobile next month, where the president will campaign for Tommy Tuberville against Sessions in a runoff election, CNN reported.
Mobile is Sessions’ hometown. Trump has gone after Sessions repeatedly, both during his tenure as attorney general and after, blasting him for his decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe.
Donald Trump pictured in Albama in 2016 when then-Sen. Jeff Sessions endorsed him. Trump is expected to return to Sessions’ hometown of Mobile to campaign against Sessions, who faces a runoff election against former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville
Sessions is running to reclaim his old Senate seat, which he gave up after advising Trump’s 2016 as the first sitting senator to back him.
Trump hit pause on his raucous campaign events after the coronavirus hit in full force, but is planning to restart them with a Saturday indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Trump has endorsed former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville
Sessions will face the former Auburn football coach in a July 14 runoff.
Trump has repeatedly inveighed against Sessions for his role in the Russia probe.
‘Jeff Sessions was a disaster as attorney general – should have never been Attorney General,’ Trump told Sharyl Attkisson for her show ‘Full Measure’ in May. ”He’s not mentally qualified to be Attorney General. He was the biggest problem,’ Trump said of the man he nominated to be the nation’s to law enforcement officer.
President Trump and Jeff Sessions together in happier time: February 9, 2017, when Sessions was sworn in as attorney general in a ceremony in the Oval Office
Sessions tweeted that he agreed with his former boss that the Mueller investigation into alleged Russian election meddling was ‘phony.’ Sessions also insisted that he was the one who urged Trump to fire FBI Director James Comey
Sessions continued: ‘You and I fight for the same agenda.’ He then lashed out at his rival in the GOP Senate primary in Alabama, former college football coach Tommy Tuberville, whom Trump has endorsed
Sessions hit back at Trump on Twitter, writing: ‘I will never apologize for following the law and serving faithfully and with honor.’
‘Neither of us knew about the phony investigation into our campaign until after I was sworn in,’ he continued. ‘As you will recall, I recommended firing [former FBI Director James] Comey from the very beginning. You and I fight for the same agenda.’
Sessions made his decision to recuse while his own undisclosed Russia contacts were under scrutiny.
Trump has endorsed Tuberville and says Sessions ‘let our Country down.’
The winner will face Democrat Doug Jones, who won election to fulfill Sessions’ term over Republican Roy Moore, who was facing allegations of sexual misconduct with women decades ago when they were teens.
Trump’s 2015 rally at the Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile drew 30,000 people and was an early harbinger of his campaign success.