Trump will reportedly endorse Jeff Sessions' Senate opponent in the most passive aggressive way possible

President Trump is about to take his incredible grudge against his former attorney general to the next level.

Jeff Sessions is running to reclaim the Alabama Senate seat he gave up to become Trump's first attorney general — a spot he was fired from just after the 2018 midterm elections. But before Sessions can head back to the Senate, he has to beat out former college football coach Tommy Tuberville for the GOP nomination — and survive Trump's massive grudge.

Trump pretty openly disliked Sessions even while he was still serving in the administration, particularly because Sessions recused himself from overseeing former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Trump has even said the only reason he gave Sessions a job was because the senator was one of his first endorsers, notably joining Trump onstage at a rally in Mobile, Alabama, in late 2015. In just a few weeks, Trump will return to the same Mobile arena for another rally, but this time Tuberville will join him, CNN reports.

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If there's one thing that can be said about Trump, it's that he knows how to twist the knife.