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A report says the U.S President Donald Trump has privately warned Jeff Sessions that he will publicly attack him if the former attorney general chooses to run for the Senate in Alabama. Trump reportedly forced Sessions out of the administration after the attorney general’s decision not to involve from oversight of the Mueller investigation. Sessions pulled out himself from the Mueller process due to his involvement in the Trump 2016 campaign. The New York Times reported that last week Trump delivered a message to Sessions and warned him of public attacks if he runs for Alabama’s Senate seat. It is noteworthy that Sessions held Alabama’s Senate seat for 20 years, from 1997 to 2017. The White House didn’t respond immediately for comment.

President Trump fired Sessions from the administration in the month of November 2018 after spending almost 2-years openly criticizing his decision to pull out himself. Trump informed Hill TV in an interview a couple of months before he fired Sessions, “I don’t have an attorney general. It’s very sad”. Sessions defended himself against Trump’s criticisms in a statement in February 2018. He said, “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”.

Now, Trump has warned 72-years old Sessions not to run again in Alabama for the GOP. It is important that Sessions will go up against Roy Moore. Moore lost to the Democrat Doug Jones In a 2017 special election to replace Sessions as the state’s senator, following 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 is that both have the potential to be a damaging affair for the Republican Party in the election in 2020. A Republican political consultant in Birmingham, Elizabeth Beshears informed The New Yorker at the time, “I hope Moore is relegated to the sidelines. 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”.