The White House defended on Tuesday its decision to remove acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructed her agency not to defend an executive order that temporarily suspended immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries.
“As someone who has chosen to lead a department, she was rightfully removed,” press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.
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Spicer called her actions “bewildering as well as defiant.”
“Every one of the appointees understands that they serve at the pleasure of the president,” Spicer said.
He noted that anyone serving in the administration should be under the impression that they are to implement President Trump’s agenda, or leave.
“He has an agenda that he articulated very, very clearly to the American people,” Spicer said of Trump.
“Their job is to fulfill that, and if they don’t like it, then they shouldn’t take the job,” Trump said of appointees.
