What job do you hold?
Just imagining what might have been going through the acting AG’s mind when he lowered the boom. Reagan fired the airtraffic controllers when they went on strike. Even Truman dismissed MacArthur. They and others probably thought they were indispensable—or at least insulated to that measure. The AG might have thought there was nothing to lose since another Obama appointee was right behind her. Trump did the right thing.