A person familiar with Sally Yates’ thinking says the former acting attorney general has told others she felt Donald Trump‘s executive order on refugees appeared to favour Christians over Muslims and she was troubled by that.
The person says Yates knew her firing was a likely outcome if she refused to enforce the order, but did not want to resign and leave the problem unresolved for someone else.
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Jeff Sessions asked Sally Yates in 2015 if she would stand up to the President as AG -
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White House: ‘Defiant’ Sally Yates was required to follow a lawful order from the President -
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White House: Sally Yates fired for failing to carry out a lawful order -
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Senator Patrick Leahy calls Trump’s firing of Attorney General Sally Yates ‘shameful’ -
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White House: Yates fired for being ‘bewildering as well as defiant’
The person was not authorized to discuss the situation by name and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Tuesday that Yates was “rightfully removed.”
READ MORE: Donald Trump fires acting U.S. attorney general after she tells staff not to defend travel ban
A former spokeswoman for Yates said she was not publicly commenting.
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