{"id":42019,"date":"2020-04-02T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42019"},"modified":"2020-04-02T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:51:09","slug":"trump-to-sessions-i-dont-love-you-any-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42019","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Sessions: I don&#8217;t love you any longer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Sessions%20%23POTUS%20%23Russianattack&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Donald_Trump_Jeff_Sessions-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37662\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Donald_Trump_Jeff_Sessions-1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Donald_Trump_Jeff_Sessions-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Donald_Trump_Jeff_Sessions-1-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Donald_Trump_Jeff_Sessions-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Donald_Trump_Jeff_Sessions-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a political story I don&#8217;t recall ever seeing \u2026 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential re-election campaign has told U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Sessions to cease saying that he&#8217;s a 100-percent Trump supporter as he campaigns for election to the Senate from Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Sessions once served as attorney general in the Trump administration. Then he recused himself &#8212;<em> properly<\/em>, in my view &#8212; from any active role in the &#8220;Russia thing&#8221; involving allegations of collusion with Russians who were interfering in our 2016 presidential election. He enraged Trump, who fired him.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions had served previously in the Senate. He was the first senator to endorse Trump. He and Trump were joined at the hip.<\/p>\n<p>That was then. The seat he once occupied is now filled by Democratic Sen. Doug Jones. Sessions has been declaring how much of a Trump fan he remains. The president is having none of it. He wants Sessions to stop using the Trump name in his campaign ads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/elections-2020\/trump-campaign-tells-sessions-to-stop-promoting-himself-as-trump-ally\/ar-BB125kSM?ocid=spartandhp\">Trump&#8217;s campaign<\/a> says the president does not favor Sessions&#8217; election to the Senate. He has backed Tommy Tuberville, a former college football coach at Auburn and Texas Tech.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to note that none of the Sessions ads I have seen has said a word that declares that Trump wants the former AG back in the Senate, only that Sessions is with Trump all the way.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. I guess the grudge-bearing president wants to make a point that one would figure he wouldn&#8217;t need to make.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Sessions%20%23POTUS%20%23Russianattack&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a political story I don&#8217;t recall ever seeing \u2026 until now. Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential re-election campaign has told U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Sessions to cease saying that he&#8217;s a 100-percent Trump supporter as he campaigns for election to the Senate from Alabama. You see, Sessions once served as attorney general in the Trump &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump to Sessions: I don&#8217;t love you any longer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7131,1424,7421,2434,7093,7467],"class_list":["post-42019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-collusion","tag-donald-trump","tag-doug-jones","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-russia-probe","tag-russian-interference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42020,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42019\/revisions\/42020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}