Trump says Jeff Sessions is not fit to the Attorney General role as grudge intensifies

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• President Trump’s tirades against the former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, continues, saying that he was not mentally fit for the job.
• The clash started when Sessions recuse from the FBI’s investigation over the Russian’s supposed participation in the 2016 elections.
• Sessions were running against college football coach Tommy Tuberville in the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump escalated his continuing quarrel with the former Attorney General, saying that Jeff Sessions was not fit for the post.

While Sessions was a personal choice of Trump for the attorney general job in 2017, the President noted the appointment was a disaster, and he realized that he has never been qualified.

The comments by Trump comes during an interview on the news show, “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.”

The President’s remarks were also following his official endorsement of college football coach Tommy Tuberville, Sessions’ opponent in the Alabama Senate race.

Trump has repeatedly attacked former attorney general for inhibiting himself from the FBI’s probe into Russian influence in the previous election in 2016.

On Saturday, Sessions replied to Trump’s remarks through Twitter,  saying that the President was fortunate because of his choice to recuse with the investigation, and noting that the rule of law was maintained.

Sessions added that voting him as Alabama’s senator was never the President’s choice but instead by the state’s residents.

During the Republican primaries in March,  Tuberville and Sessions were close to the finish, and that would prepare them for the upcoming runoff on July 14.  The leading on that event will face Democratic Senator Doug Jones in November.  The senator was voted against Sessions’ previous post during a special election in 2017.

Trump’s criticism of his ex appointee is only one of the several disagreements with Sessions in years, and in November 2018, Trump fired Sessions in his job as attorney general. Matt Whitaker was temporarily appointed on the post.

Last year, Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” during an interview that Sessions would be his only appointment mistake,  claiming that the former Alabama lawmaker should have never been there in the post.

Source: AOL