Jan 30, 2017 · President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night for “refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States,” the White House said. “...
Jan 31, 2017 · Because Yates, who served as a principal officer, impeded the president’s duty of faithful execution, her removal was entirely justified. While I defend Trump’s constitutional authority to remove...
May 08, 2017 · Yates was fired by President Donald Trump after 10 days as acting attorney general when she declined to enforce his executive order on travel and immigration. Obama Warned Trump About Flynn
Aug 19, 2020 · 44th president of the United States, from 2009 to 2017. Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was an unusual speaker at Tuesday's Democratic National Convention. Yates, who served as a deputy...
Yates was fired by President Donald Trump after 10 days as acting attorney general when she declined to enforce his executive order on travel and immigration.
Sally Yates details warning Trump about Michael Flynn. May 9, 201702:39. Yates said she felt it was critical to get the information to the White House "in part because the vice president was unknowingly making false statements to the public," and also because Flynn was compromised, given that the Russians knew he was misleading other officials.
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified Monday that she told the White House that then-National Security Adviser Mike Flynn could be "blackmailed by the Russians," because he misled the vice president about his "problematic" conduct.
Michael Flynn, then, National Security Advisor to US President Donald J. Trump, attends a press conference on Feb. 10, 2017 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA.
In other developments, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told senators he had not been aware of the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation into possible collusion between Trump associates and the Russian election interference operation.
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she ordered Justice Dept. lawyers to stop defending Mr. Trump’s executive order banning new arrivals to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Boente was sworn in around 9 p.m. Monday, White House spokesman Michael Short said. He then directed the Justice Department to defend Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugees. Reporters and news photographers were not invited to witness the swearing-in ceremony. The announcement about Yates’ firing and the new acting attorney general ...