diff --git a/deepspeech/training/trainer.py b/deepspeech/training/trainer.py
index 23d15c3c8..779fe032a 100644
--- a/deepspeech/training/trainer.py
+++ b/deepspeech/training/trainer.py
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ class Trainer():
         self.visualizer = None
         self.output_dir = None
         self.checkpoint_dir = None
-        logger = None
         self.iteration = 0
         self.epoch = 0