"This is what happens to someone who loyally gets appointed Attorney General & then doesn't have the wisdom or courage to stare down & end the phony Russia Witch Hunt," Trump said President Donald Trump taunted Jeff Sessions for falling short of winning the GOP nomination for a U.S. Senate seat, renewing his criticism of the former attorney general for recusing himself in the federal probe into Russian election meddling. “This is what happens to someone who loyally gets appointed Attorney General of the United States & then doesn’t have the wisdom or courage to stare down & end the phony Russia Witch Hunt,” Trump said in a Wednesday morning tweet. “Recuses himself on FIRST DAY in office, and the Mueller Scam begins!” Sessions faces a March 31 runoff in the Alabama GOP primary after a close race on Tuesday. Sessions, ousted by Trump from the attorney general’s job in 2018, is trying to reclaim the U.S. Senate seat he held for 20 years. The winner of the primary will face incumbent Democrat Doug Jones. Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe after coming under fire for not telling Congress about his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. during Trump’s campaign. Sessions became a target of the president’s open contempt for ceding control of the probe, which was ultimately led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-04/trump-takes-swipe-at-sessions-ahead-of-alabama-senate-runoff?srnd=premium