It's no secret that President Donald Trump is still very angry with former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and regrets choosing him to lead the Department of Justice.



But now, the tables have turned and the president just got his long-awaited revenge on the former Alabama senator.

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While speaking with The Hill, Alabama GOP Sen. Richard Shelby said Trump is not supportive of Sessions running for a Senate seat in Alabama and likely would not help his campaign.

Shelby said he recently spoke with Trump about Sessions potentially running for the U.S. Senate, but said the president was “not encouraging” about the former senator turned cabinet official making a bid to take back the seat that he vacated to work at the White House.

“I did talk to [Sessions]. I talked to the president about it to … about if Sessions ran, he was not encouraging. How do I say it? He was not on board, OK?” Shelby said.

When asked if the president gave any details about his lack of enthusiasm about Sessions' political future, the senator declined to comment, saying that he didn’t wan to “get into that.”

“We talked about every possibility. We talked about the seat, basically, you know how to win the seat,” Shelby said.

“I think he [Sessions] would be formidable but he would [have] multi-battles. He might be having to struggle if the president was against him … and then with his opponents,” Shelby added.

Sessions has not publicly confirmed that he is considering a Senate run, but did say at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas recently that he hasn’t “made a formal announcement about the Senate race, but I am interested about the issues.”

“I’d love to see us bring more intellectual heft behind those positions. I think it exists, and maybe I can contribute some in that,” Sessions said.

When asked about his conversations with Sessions, Shelby said, “I don’t think he’s going to run, but he hasn’t said unequivocally he’s not,” Shelby said. “He would be a formidable candidate if he ran, but he would ask himself why would he want to come up here.”

Trump has made it more than clear that he is not a fan of Sessions.

Just last month, Trump said nominating Sessions to serve as the attorney general was the biggest mistake of his entire presidency.

During an interview on NBC's "Meet The Press," host Chuck Todd asked Trump: “If you would have one do-over as president, what would it be?”

Trump answered, “Well, it would be personnel.”

“I would say if I had one do-over, it would be, I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general. That would be my one,” Trump said.

If Sessions does decide to run, it certainly appears he won't be getting any help from Trump.