Sally Yates blasts Trump’s DOJ remarks as ‘abnormal,’ ‘dangerous’

Published January 2, 2018 7:40pm ET



Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates blasted President Trump’s latest comments about the Department of Justice.

Citing Trump’s comments from a December interview in the New York Times in which he said he has “the absolute right to do what I want with the Justice Department,” Yates wrote of the president’s Tuesday morning tweet: “Today he slanders career DOJ professionals as ‘deep state,’ calls for prison for a political opponent, and tries to sic DOJ on a potential witness against him. Beyond abnormal; dangerous.”

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