Former Obama deputy-turned-acting attorney general during the first days of the first Trump Administration, Sally Yates is the poster child of Justice Department politicization. She famously made herself a martyr by forcing Trump to fire her after she ordered the department not to enforce his travel ban order. Still, when Yates traveled over to Comedy Central on Monday, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart asked her if the Bush-era DOJ was the one to blame for politicization.
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Later in their discussion, Stewart tried to summarize, “I think what you were getting to is it's a system that has flaws but that every day, we have worked towards, boy, you hate to say a more perfect union, but that you've worked towards making it more just.”
After Yates affirmed that, Stewart wondered, “So, why is this a threat, when you just said, like, the threat now?”
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