Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ differences with President Donald Trump are a well-chronicled saga that has played a role in Sessions’ bid to regain the U.S. Senate seat he previously occupied for 20 years.

The same view of Sessions is held by many of Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill, including by U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who back in March announced he was supporting Sessions’ Republican U.S. Senate opponent former Auburn head football coach Tommy Tuberville.

During an interview with Huntsville radio’s WVNN, Gaetz elaborated on criticisms he had previously made on his “Hot Takes” podcast about Sessions, noting what he saw was “weakness” as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.

“In the Trump movement, what we cannot tolerate is weakness because when we are facing the headwinds of all the Democrats, most of the media, a good number of Republicans fighting against this president, you can believe all the greatest things in the world,” he said. “But you have to be capable and vigorous enough to fight for them. What I saw in Jeff Sessions as attorney general was abject weakness. If he was going to recuse himself from this investigation, he should have resigned.”

“It was Jeff Sessions’ weakness — his inability to provide leadership at the Department of Justice that distracted and divided our country over an investigation that was corruptly and fraudulently predicated in the first place. I believe Jeff Sessions was a great senator one day, long ago. I do not believe he will be a great senator or public servant again because I don’t think he is able to marshall the vigor and the effort and the energy and the leadership that it takes to be successful in the Trump era. And what I see in Coach Tuberville is somebody who has led men before and he is excited to do it again.”

@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly and host of Huntsville’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 2-5 p.m. on WVNN.