Of course he did.
Again, you become President on 01/20/17 and you literally get inaugurated in the middle of a snake's pen. Your DOJ is infested with Deep State mofos.
All of what Sessions did was an act. Tell me, why would Trump nominate Sessions as his AG, then tweetstorm mean things against him, disregarding the fact that Sessions was the first Republican to endorse him and campaigned for him?
Sessions did his job perfectly. He floundered around like a fish out of water, and conservatives laughed at him while liberals started to support him. But he did his job behind the scenes. That is why he is called the Silent Executioner.
Shall we agree to disagree then? Time will tell and we’ll all have time to look back and consider our own conclusions and give credit where credit is due.