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Trump fires acting AG after Justice Department staff told not to defend refugee order
Fox News.com ^ | January 30, 2017

Posted on 01/30/2017 6:46:27 PM PST by Kaslin

President Donald Trump relieved acting Attorney General Sally Yates of her duties Monday night after she directed Justice Department attorneys not to defend Trump's controversial executive refugee and immigration ban.

Yates, a holdover from the Obama Administration, was replaced as acting attorney general by Dana Boente, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Yates had "betrayed the Justice Department" by refusing to enforce Trump's order, which temporarily halted the entire U.S. refugee program and banned all entries from seven Muslim-majority nations for 90 days.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: actingag; ag; attorneygeneral; boente; cultureofcorruption; dag; democratscandals; draintheswamp; fired; first100days; obama; obamaag; obamunism; presidenttrump; ragsdale; sallyyates; shadowgovernment; trump45; trumpdoj; yates; yourefired
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To: mrsmith

It’s not just CNN - self proclaimed conservative (never did anything in her life) Meghan McCain said on her radio show tonight that Trump has made her so anxious she is breaking out in hives.

I am not making it up. Happened to hear it when I was on the way home from the office later than usual. It was a perfect summary of what is wrong with the GOPe.


121 posted on 01/30/2017 8:02:54 PM PST by volunbeer (Clinton Cash = Proof of Corruption)
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To: PGR88

If you need any other evidence that Fed.gov is captured by statist-leftists-progressives, here it is.

They put their ideology above the law.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I’ve been telling friends and family since 2012 that Obama was orchestrating the infiltration of our federal government by Marxist and Muslim anti-Americans committed to the destruction of our Constitutional Republic, AND that high ranking officials in all three branches of the government are complicit in this traitorous subversion.


122 posted on 01/30/2017 8:03:30 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (God, Guns, and Trump will save the USA)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

We’re on the cusp. I’m not a religious man, but I’ll pray in a pinch, and I’m prayin’


123 posted on 01/30/2017 8:07:42 PM PST by dr_lew (I)
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To: Roger Kaputnik
Dude looks like that transitional, castrated pseudo-male who clutched his pearls while his wife got them both kicked off the airplane last week.

You realize you're talking about the new person Trump just appointed, not the woman he fired?

124 posted on 01/30/2017 8:15:59 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Kaslin

Was Sally Yates the Justice Dept. Attorney that granted all the crooks in the Clinton E-mail scandal immunity?

I’ll bet the farm she was involved.


125 posted on 01/30/2017 8:17:43 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: AndyJackson

that’s interesting


126 posted on 01/30/2017 8:20:27 PM PST by opus1
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To: max americana
and why cant the prez fire the imbecile NY Judge who started this?

Because of that pesky Constitution thingy, which says that federal judges serve for life, subject only to impeachment.

127 posted on 01/30/2017 8:20:51 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: volunbeer
Meghan McCain said on her radio show tonight that Trump has made her so anxious she is breaking out in hives.

OMG! I don't know whether to cry from hilarity, or cry from the thought that this woman is supposedly a Pub.

Truth really is stranger than anything one (or at least I) could make up.

I'm frightened to even wonder how this woman would react in a real crisis...

128 posted on 01/30/2017 8:34:08 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: Kaslin

Obama’ Admin was chilling.

I’m so glad they are gone. This woman and Obama were probably talking today. First he made his comments and she was emboldened by him.

Good riddence.


129 posted on 01/30/2017 8:39:51 PM PST by HollyB
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Well said!!!


130 posted on 01/30/2017 8:46:38 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: DoughtyOne

Almost Like Reagan firing air traffic controllers. Gotta love it.


131 posted on 01/30/2017 8:58:29 PM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: Paul R.

I was dumbfounded listening to her. Why does she have a radio program and a talking head position with Fox News? What has she ever done to deserve such a microphone? No depth, wisdom, or meaningful experience - just a smorgasbord of hypersensitivity about political correctness while claiming to be a conservative. She actually shared a personal story about having a Muslim suitemate at college in Columbia. That was it..... the whole “real world experience for the girl with hives” experience. Outside of that it was just a fair dose of bashing Trump.

It would have been comical if she did not take herself so seriously!


132 posted on 01/30/2017 8:59:57 PM PST by volunbeer (Clinton Cash = Proof of Corruption)
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To: PA-RIVER

I agree.

There really is a new sheriff in town.


133 posted on 01/30/2017 9:04:42 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Much thanks.

Great minds think alike.


134 posted on 01/30/2017 9:06:58 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Paul R.

A week before the election Megan McCain was gloating about how bad Trump would lose the election. How conservatives would be driven from the party.

Now think about what John McCain said to her, and what he is now doing.


135 posted on 01/30/2017 9:09:41 PM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: HokieMom

Wonderful statement; President Trump inspires the team.


136 posted on 01/30/2017 9:12:18 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: vicdoc

I wish only that he would have used this opportunity to appoint Sheriff Joe Arpaio as temporary AG and Mike Zullo as his 2nd in command. They could have started a justice department investigation using their previous findings about Obama’s past and forged documentation as a foundation. It would have been fun to watch all the liberal heads explode.


137 posted on 01/30/2017 9:14:15 PM PST by fireman15 (How many illegal aliens voted for Hillary in CA and NY alone?)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

If so, my apologies.

Then again, for the last eight years, Barry was appointing so many men, women, womyns and trans persons into fugment (not government or gubmint, but rather f*cked up government positions, hence the term ‘fugment’) that I cannot properly identify who or what I am talking about without a government issued and approved flow chart or thesaraus.

Geezus H. Crimany! What the f*ck is your malfunction, Numb Nuts? And why are you attacking me instead of your true enemy?

Fff***ccckkk! I truly despise douche-nozzles like you. (Hat Tip to Adam Carolla on that. P.S.: Jimmy Kimmel is Adam’s beatch.)


138 posted on 01/30/2017 9:19:54 PM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: volunbeer

Megan McCain has a radio show only because she’s John McCain’s daughter. The network that hired her is only helping her pimp herself out to attract the 20-30 demographic.

Total airhead. Vacuous. Idiot.


139 posted on 01/30/2017 9:25:55 PM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: castlebrew

Makes you wonder, when the old goat kicks the bucket, will Fox give her the chop....


140 posted on 01/30/2017 9:29:17 PM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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