Tuesday night former Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised President Donald Trump and many of his policies, saying he continues to support him and his effort to fight socialist trends.
The former U.S. senator made no remarks about the recent scandal surrounding Trump during his 40-minute speech at a Madison County Republican Party fundraiser in Alabama.
“He is relentlessly and actually honoring the promises he made to the American people,” Sessions said.
“Half of America makes less than 50 to 60 thousand dollars a year,” Sessions said. “The average voter does not like the Democratic agenda, but we haven’t shown them sufficiently how much we need them and that we care for them and that we are listening to them about the things they care about,” he continued. He commented on the Democrat party’s and presidential candidate’s trend toward socialist policies. “The president is exactly right. We will not let socialism take over in this country,” Sessions said. Sessions joked about life after being “fired” from a job.
“I'd like to say a lot of people get fired in their work. Mine was a little more public than most,” he quipped, adding that he’s happy that “in this country at least they don’t shoot you.”
Sessions, who was an early Trump supporter during the 2016 election and wore a “Make America Great Again” hat at a rally, submitted his resignation letter to Trump, in November of 2018, ending his two-year tenure as head of the Department of Justice.
In July 2017, Sessions, while speaking in El Salvador during several anti-gang meetings, said that he was “blessed” to be attorney general.
Since leaving public office, Sessions has primarily stayed out of the public spotlight and has made no mention of returning to public office.