Sessions fires back at Trump on Twitter over Ala. Senate race

Donald Trump’s former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, took to Twitter to fire back at the president and his latest attempt to tip an Alabama Senate runoff election.

Sessions took on Trump directly in a string of tweets late Friday and Saturday, saying he was right to recuse himself in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He also called the president’s favored candidate in the race a “coward.”

Sessions was responding to a tweet by Trump on Friday criticizing him for his 2017 recusal in the decision to appoint Robert Mueller as a special counsel to review allegations surrounding the election.

In the first of several tweets, Sessions replied that his recusal “was required by law. I did my duty & you’re damn fortunate I did.”