Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates
Sally Caroline YatesOVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Midshipmen have COVID-19 | Concerns over reopening | Snowden pardon gets bad reviews from major lawmakers | Eyes turn to Democratic convention Ocasio-Cortez’s 2nd grade teacher tells her ‘you have this’ ahead of Trump’s DNC speech: Yates lie as grossly incomplete MORE spoke Tuesday night at the virtual Democratic National Convention, where she ripped President Trump
Donald John TrumpThe Memo: Democrats pitch Biden as the back-to-normal candidate Obama congratulates Biden with formal nomination Jill Biden gives personal portrait of man Joe MORE for following a ban on travelers from various majority Muslim countries early in his presidency.
“Speaking at a political convention is something I never thought I would do, but the future of our democracy is on the horizon,” said Yates, a longtime justice official who served in the Obama administration before remaining in office. an acting role in the transition to the Trump administration.
“Then I was fired for rejecting President Trump’s disgraceful and illegal Muslim travel ban,” Yates said, referring to the president’s decision to restrict travel to the U.S. from several majority Muslim countries.
Yates said that decision – which came less than a month after Trump took office – was “the start of his sympathetic attacks on our democratic institutions and countless dedicated officials.”
“From the moment President Trump took office, he has used his position to make himself more advantageous than our country,” Yates said in her comments from Atlanta. “He has violated the rule of law, tried to arm our justice department, tried to attack his enemies and protect his friends.”
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates says President Trump “treats our country as if it were his family business – this time, the moral authority of our nation at home and abroad bankruptcy. But our country does not belong to him. It belongs to all of us. . ” https://t.co/tFT8FVSwQb pic.twitter.com/crMvYJGhlF
– CBS News (@CBSNews) August 19, 2020
The president fired back at Yates on Tuesday in a tweet, calling her “a terrible AG”
She was a terrible AG. Are they the leaker? https://t.co/uSlFYYU9O0
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2020
Yates briefly served as acting attorney general early in Trump’s office before the president dismissed her for refusing to defend his travel ban.
Trump first issued the travel ban in 2017, blocking the entry of those coming from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia – all mainly Muslim countries. Trump administration officials later added several non-Muslim-majority countries to the list because it faced a number of legal challenges, and the ban was imposed by the Supreme Court.
Former Vice President Joe Biden
Joe BidenThe Memo: Democrats pitch Biden as the back-to-normal candidate Obama congratulates Biden with formal nomination Jill Biden gives personal portrait of man Joe MORE has promised the ban to turn around if he wins in November.
Yates recently received national attention when she testified for the First Chamber Justice Committee in a heated hearing on investigations into previous Trump campaign aides related to Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections.
‘Rather than get up [Russian President] Vladimir Putin
President Vladimir Vladimirovich PutinBelarus says he would be open to handing over power to referendum The big gamble of COVID-19 fax development Can Trump legally kneel the Postal Service to block postal voting? MORE“He’s cringing at a dictator who’s still trying to intervene in our election,” Yates said Tuesday night. “He’s even trying to sabotage our Post Office to prevent people from voting.”
Updated: 19 Aug. At 12:08 p.m.
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