Spicer Signals Getting Fired For Dissent 'Comes With The Job' In Trump Era
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ESME CRIBB Published JANUARY 31, 2017, 1:49 PM EDT
White House press secretary Sean Spicer suggested Monday that if federal employees refuse to follow President Donald Trump's "orders," they should expect to be fired.
Responding to a question on fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates' letter to Justice Department lawyers ordering them not to defend Trump's travel ban, Spicer said it "is the right of every American to express their idea and opinion." But he insisted that Yates' letter went further than that.
"There's a difference when she, as the acting attorney general, is not only responsible but required to execute lawful orders and defiantly says no," he said. "As someone who was chosen to lead a department, she was rightfully removed."
Spicer said the position of acting attorney general is "given to somebody who is supposed to execute orders that are handed down to them properly," and said that was "100 percent done" in the case of Trump's executive order temporarily barring visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
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