I have a man who is respected by everybody here, greatly respected….He’s really the expert as far as I’m concerned on borders, on so many things.

Politico, February 28, 2016

‘Jeff has been a highly respected member of the U.S. Senate for 20 years,’ Trump said in a statement. ‘He is a world-class legal mind and considered a truly great Attorney General and US Attorney in the state of Alabama. Jeff is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him.’

CNN, November 18, 2016

‘Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,’ Mr. Trump said.

The New York Times, July 19, 2017

‘When they say he endorsed me, I went to Alabama,’ Mr. Trump said on Tuesday, recalling the endorsement. ‘I had 40,000 people. He was a senator from Alabama. I won the state by a lot, massive numbers. A lot of the states I won by massive numbers. But he was a senator, he looks at 40,000 people and he probably says, ‘What do I have to lose?’ And he endorsed me. So it’s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement. But I’m very disappointed in Jeff Sessions.’

Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2017

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