President Trump fired Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday night for ‘treasonous’ acts against the United States. The Acting Attorney General defied President Trump’s wishes to block potential terrorists from entering America by refusing to defend his controversial executive order in court. The firing comes after the Obama supporting Democrat told Trump that she would not defend his decision to temporarily halt immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries – warning him she would undermine and ignore all of his orders. Nytimes.com reports: Taking action in an escalating crisis for his 10-day-old administration, Mr. Trump declared that Sally Q. Yates had “betrayed” the administration, the White House said in a statement. The president appointed Dana J. Boente, United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as acting attorney general until Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama is confirmed. Ms. Yates’s decision confronted the president with a stinging challenge to his authority and laid bare a deep divide at the Justice Department, within the diplomatic corps and elsewhere in the government over the wisdom of his order. “At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities, nor am I convinced that the executive [...]
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