As former U.S. Attorney General and former U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions looks back on his career of service, he believes God has blessed him.
Sessions shared his story on the second episode of “Grand Old Podcast,” the Alabama Republican Party’s new show hosted by Chairman Scott Stadthagen.
“People worked their work their tails off in the country, and the values that we grew up with are good values, and I used to say in my first campaign, I want to reflect the highest and best values of Alabama,” Sessions said. “That’s what I tried to do throughout my career, and it was an honor to serve, and it’s amazing to go from no politicians, no people of prominence in my family, and next thing you know, I’m in Attorney General of Alabama, the U.S. Senator, and the U.S. Attorney General. That’s right. How can I complain? What an adventure.”
Sessions served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama from 1981 to 1993. Shortly after that, he was the 44th Attorney General of Alabama. He then served in the U.S. Senate from 1997 thru 2017. He eventually would leave the Senate to become the 84th United States Attorney General.
President Donald Trump nominated Sessions for Attorney General after the senator became one of the first Republicans in elected office to strongly support and campaign for him in 2016.
Trump would eventually become very critical of Sessions after he recused himself from the Russia collusion investigation. Sessions said he has no regrets supporting the President despite what occurred during his term.
“So I’m real proud of President Trump,” he said. “He has done what he said he was going to do. I don’t begrudge supporting him one minute. First, nobody else would have gotten elected. I’m confident of that. He was the only Republican that could win, and he has made monumental progress on immigration. I would not have imagined 10 years ago we could have made this much progress, and he has stood up for American manufacturing, and he’s not let these free trade ideologues, these religious free traders, when people are cheating you, you got to push back. And tariffs are better than bombs.”
Session also discussed his many years serving as the U.S. Senator for the Yellowhammer State.
“We had some fun, but I I think it’s important,” he said. “I tried to be faithful to the people who elected me, and I began to understand that even the Republican establishment, which was so much better than the leftist Democrats, were not understanding the frustrations and the everyday problems of working Americans, and they were all for free trade and against tariffs. They were many of them were secretly supportive of more immigration, and they were too tied to political contributions, so I began to push back on that, and so people tell say, kind of correctly, you were advancing the Trump agenda before Trump, and I was.”
