> Ms. Yates is an Obama Administration appointee who is weak And was specifically asked to stay on by Trump. > betrayed the Department of Justice The oath she took was to uphold the Constitution. Her loyalty should not be to the DOJ or the POTUS. By characterizing this as a betrayal of an institution or administration completely ignores Constitutional fundamentals. DT fires her for not obeying his whim; that is his prerogative. She was making a major statement with full understanding of the consequences and got what she wanted. She seems principled. The first major official to simply tell him to fuck off. DT seems (understandably) vindictive and unconcerned about the Constitution. Assuming he thought this through, that his his basic message. I do not see that he had any alternative to immediately firing her. I also shows that he did not get buy in from his AG to the extent she went incredibly public with her displeasure. That is a weak administration. IMO I am not sure if the completely foreseeable consequences of the EO were unanticipated or were intentional. Either scenario is really shitty.
Three days before her replacement was to take office. So yes, DT is being a petty tyrant by firing her. She did her job. She did it well. And he could have let it sit until the weekend, but our Chief Twitterer was unable to abstain from a childish tantrum. In a REAL Presidential administration, the order would have been passed by the heads of the different offices to get their feedback and help them plan for implementation and execution of the order. Trump (cough, cough BANNON) ignored that process, went around the people he knew would nix the order, and just issued it anyway. ... to highly predictable results. DT fires her for not obeying his whim ...
Did you mean to quote: > I do not see that he had any alternative to immediately firing her. Of course he did but that would be inconsistent with his persona of being knee-jerk impulsive, petty and vindictive. Despite the fact that came at the cost of giving her a badge of honor.