Politico: “The 36-year-old Sims formerly published Yellowhammer News, an influential conservative website that tracks the Alabama political scene. He has maintained connections with leaders in the state, including Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, who announced Monday that he was retiring after more than three decades in the Senate.
Sims spent the final months of the Trump administration working at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he served as deputy director under former Director John Ratcliffe. Ratcliffe indicated in a statement that he would lend his support to a Sims candidacy.
“Cliff has a servant’s heart and if he decides to run, I’m confident that no one would fight harder for the people of Alabama,” said Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman….
The former Trump aide departed the White House in 2018 after working in the communications office, where he served as special assistant to the president. In 2019, Sims published “Team of Vipers,” a bestselling memoir that documented his experiences in the White House and detailed staff infighting.
Trump attacked the book upon its release, describing Sims as a “low-level staffer” and “gofer” whom he “hardly knew,” even though the jacket of the 360-page memoir pictured the former president and Sims walking down the West Wing Colonnade.”