Former acting attorney general Sally Yates, who was fired by Donald Trump last year, sounded the alarm on Thursday in an interview with Rachel Maddow.
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Yates told the MSNBC host that Trump’s performance in Helsinki was troubling and demonstrated that the current commander-in-chief isn’t “all in” for the United States of America.
The AG said the rhetoric Trump spewed while standing next to Putin shows where his loyalties are.
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Yates said:
I think all of us were really shaken by the events that took place in Helsinki. It wasn’t really just a rhetorical semantic faux pas that we were talking about here. It was what his words reflected. They revealed what our president is thinking and how he feels and where his loyalties lie. So, I think the startling reality for all of us is that we are faced with a situation where our president, the person with whom we have entrusted to lead this country, isn’t all in for our nation.
Sally Yates has a past with Trump
Sally Yates knows a thing or two about where Donald Trump’s loyalties lie.
When she was acting attorney general for just ten days in 2017, she warned the Trump administration that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had been compromised by the Russians.
In response to that dire warning, the Trump administration responded by … doing nothing. It wasn’t until more than two weeks later that the president decided to fire Flynn.
Now, Yates appears to be issuing a similar warning, but this time it’s to the American people. Her warning is not that a lower-level administration official could be compromised by the Russians, but instead that the President of the United States is.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
