Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker was told not to be concerned about getting a letter from the Federal Election Commission because then-President Donald Trump had Jeff Sessions “in his pocket,” Pecker testified Thursday in Trump’s hush money trial in New York City.

“Jeff Sessions is the attorney general, and Donald Trump has him in his pocket,” Michael Cohen, then Trump’s personal lawyer, told the then-tabloid publisher, Pecker testified, according to the Huffington Post.

Cohen, who has since flipped on Trump, is also set to testify in the case surrounding hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the runup to the 2016 presidential election.

Prosecutors contend Trump reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 payment to Daniels and did not want the stories of an affair coming out because of the upcoming election.

Trump also faces charges relating to Jan. 6, overturning the 2020 presidential election in Georgia and mishandling classified documents.

Sessions, who served as U.S. attorney general under Trump, resigned from the post at Trump’s request in November 2018.

Trump was angry with Sessions over his refusal to recuse himself from the Russia investigation that haunted Trump’s first term in office and for Sessions not being aggressive enough in using the attorney general’s office to go after the ex-president’s political enemies.

After his resignation, Sessions went on to run for his old U.S. Senate seat, where his rivalry with Trump renewed when the former president endorsed eventual nominee and current U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville in the GOP primary.

Trump mocked Sessions’ second-place finish in the primary, tweeting: “This is what happens to someone who loyally gets appointed Attorney General of the United States & then doesn’t have the wisdom or courage to stare down & end the phony Russia Witch Hunt. Recuses himself on FIRST DAY in office, and the Mueller Scam begins!”