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Trump fires acting AG Yates after she refuses to defend travel ban

On 30 January 2017 President Trump dismissed acting Attorney General Sally Yates hours after she told Justice Department lawyers not to defend his executive order barring travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries. The White House said she had betrayed the department and named Dana Boente as acting attorney general; Boente pledged to enforce the order.

Sally Yates (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 30 January 2017 President Trump dismissed acting Attorney General Sally Yates hours after she told Justice Department lawyers not to defend his executive order barring travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries. The White House said she had betrayed the department and named Dana Boente as acting attorney general; Boente pledged to enforce the order.

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  • Sally Yates

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    Trump fires acting AG Yates after she refuses to defend travel ban. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.npr.org — sourcenpr.org · verified
  2. 2.trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov — sourcetrumpwhitehouse.archives.gov · verified
  3. 3.theguardian.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: yates+travel ban+fire · verified
  4. 4.cnn.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, keywords: yates+travel ban+fire · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Trump fires acting AG Yates after she refuses to defend travel ban. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/trump-fires-yates-travel-ban-2017-01-30

https://factrail.ai/facts/trump-fires-yates-travel-ban-2017-01-30

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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