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President Donald Trump has reportedly “revived the idea” of firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions in recent weeks, The Washington Post reports. The president’s attorneys have “persuaded” him not to make any moves on Sessions while special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is ongoing—but Senate Republicans reportedly believe that Trump may move to fire him after the November midterms. The Wall Street Journal also reports that Sessions “signaled that he [was] tiring” of Trump’s very public critiques of him during a breakfast with GOP senators last week. The congressmen had to persuade Sessions to resist pressure to quit and to “stay in the job at least through the midterm elections.” Senators told the Journal that, for now, Sessions feels “obligated” to stay in his position to avoid the “political and legal turmoil” that would arise if he left. Trump recently tweeted that Sessions “doesn’t understand what is happening underneath his command position.” The president also referenced Sessions’ recusal from overseeing the Mueller investigation, writing, “Highly conflicted Bob Mueller and his gang of 17 Angry Dems are having a field day as real corruption goes untouched. No Collusion!”