Trump Officials Tried To Stop Sally Yates From Testifying On Russia Ties
Trump Officials Tried To Stop Sally Yates From Testifying On Russia Ties
When that didn’t work, the House Intelligence Committee chair canceled the hearing.
By Christina Wilkie , Marina Fang 03/28/2017 12:53 pm ET
Lawyers for President Donald Trump tried to prevent former acting Attorney General Sally Yates from testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on links between Trump campaign staff and Russian officials, according to correspondence first obtained by The Washington Post.
In a series of letters last week, Yates’ lawyer, David O’Neil, accused the Trump Justice Department of trying to silence Yates by asserting that “all information Ms. Yates received or actions she took in her capacity as Deputy Attorney General and acting Attorney General are client confidences that she may not disclose absent written consent of the department.”
Yates served as deputy attorney general in the Obama administration and then as acting attorney general in the first few weeks of the Trump administration. Trump fired her on Jan. 31, after she refused to enforce the president’s original executive order banning immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries.
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