Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Yates For “Betrayal”

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Acting Attorney General Sally Yates said she would not enforce Trump’s executive order on immigration. Trump decided to fire Yates and appoint Dana Boente to be the acting Attorney General. Jeff Sessions was appointed by Trump to be Attorney General, but he is still waiting for Senate confirmation.

Unsurprisingly Democrats are up in arms over the firing of ‘their’ Acting Attorney General, seemingly making her out to be some freedom-fighting martyr for their cause of selective and political law enforcement… (as The Hill reports)

 
 

The Democratic National Committee released a statement late Monday responding to ”tyrannical” President Trump’s decision to fire Acting Attorney General Sally Yates. Yates was fired shortly after she announced that Justice Department not to defend Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration under her watch.

 

“Donald Trump can try to silence heroic patriots like Sally Yates who dare to speak truth to power about his illegal anti-Muslim ban that emboldens terrorists around the globe. But he cannot silence the growing voices of an American people now wide awake to his tyrannical presidency,” the DNC statement read.

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