Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger doesn’t like how President Trump treats his supporters.
Kinzinger, a sometimes Trump critic, tweeted his disapproval after the president reveled in Jeff Sessions’s loss in Alabama late Tuesday. Sessions, Trump’s former attorney general, had been trying to win the Republican primary run-off for a stab at his old job representing Alabama in the Senate.
“Jeff was the first elected official to support you. Seems loyalty is expected from you but not granted,” Kinzinger wrote.
Jeff was the first elected official to support you. Seems loyalty is expected from you but not granted. https://t.co/w0IISk0Cnj
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) July 15, 2020
As head of the Justice Department, Sessions was instrumental in putting Trump’s stringent immigration policies into practice. But the president never forgave Sessions for recusing himself from overseeing then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The ex-reality TV star and real estate mogul wanted an attorney general who was stridently in his corner, like President John F. Kennedy had in his brother Robert.
Trump routinely lashed out at Sessions in public. He even withheld his endorsement as Sessions vied for the 2020 Republican Alabama Senate nomination against Tommy Tuberville, Auburn University’s former head football coach. Sessions had previously been in the Senate for two decades before joining the Trump administration in 2017.
“Jeff Sessions is a disaster who has let us all down,” Trump tweeted over the weekend. “We don’t want him back in Washington!”
