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Thorns in Trump’s Side
THE PRESIDENT BATTLES GEORGIANS JOHN LEWIS AND SALLY YATES
By Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com
For a couple of months, Georgia was prob
ably one of Donald Trump’s favorite states.
He received 16 electoral votes here, a key
part of the Electoral College coalition that
enabled him to claim the presidency despite
trailing Hillary Clinton by nearly three mil
lion popular votes. Trump’s gratitude could
be seen in his selection of two Georgians,
Congressman Tom Price and former Gov.
Sonny Perdue, for cabinet appointments.
Recent events may be causing Trump to
reconsider his feelings towards our state.
Just before Trump was sworn into office,
Congressman John Lewis said he would
boycott the inauguration and questioned
the legitimacy of Trump’s election. An
outraged Trump fired back with a series of
tweets denouncing Lewis.
“Congressman John Lewis should spend
more time on fixing and helping his district,
which is in horrible shape and falling apart
(not to mention crime infested) rather
than falsely complaining about the election
results,” Trump tweeted.
A week later, another Washington figure
with a Georgia background was doing battle
with Trump: Sally Yates, the acting attorney
general. She instructed the department’s
lawyers not to defend Trump’s controversial
order banning Muslim immigrants.
“I am responsible for ensuring that the
positions we take in court remain consis
tent with this institution’s solemn obliga
tion to always seek justice and stand for
what is right,” Yates wrote. “At present, I
am not convinced that the defense of the
Executive Order is consistent with these
responsibilities nor am I convinced that the
Executive Order is lawful.”
Trump was even more outraged by this
affront to his authority. Within hours,
he had fired Yates. “The acting Attorney
General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the
Department of Justice by refusing to
enforce a legal order designed to pro
tect the citizens of the United States,”
the White House said. “Ms. Yates is an
Obama Administration appointee who is
weak on borders and very weak on illegal
immigration.”
When she was a federal prosecutor in
Georgia, Yates sent to prison Atlanta’s
corrupt Democratic mayor, Bill Campbell.
Lewis opposed making Yates U.S. Attorney
because she had prosecuted Campbell.
Georgia’s Republican senators voted to
confirm her as deputy attorney general in
2015. “She is fair; she is smart; she is intel
ligent,” Sen. Johnny Isakson said. “Sally
Quillian Yates is a great Georgian and will
be a great deputy U.S. attorney general of
the United States of America.”
Yates’ opinion about the legality of
Trump’s immigration order is also being
supported by federal judges across the
country. The most far-reaching of these
judicial rulings, which is national in its
scope, was issued by Judge James Robart of
Seattle, a George W. Bush appointee.
In his hearing on the executive order,
Robart noted that since the terrorist
attacks of 2001, no attacks had been car
ried out on U.S. soil by individuals from the
seven countries specified in Trump’s travel
ban. For Trump’s order to be constitutional,
Robart said, it had to be “based in fact, as
opposed to fiction.”
We have seen that Trump is a person
who hates to be contradicted by anyone.
He is a dominant personality who demands
that everyone else submit to his will. In
the first two weeks of his administration,
he has been confronted by two Georgians
who disagreed with him publicly. You have
to think he will exact some kind of revenge
against the state. What will it be? O
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by TOM TOMORROW
| LOOKING BACKWARD |
DURING THE CAMPAIGN, TRUMP RE
FUSED TO RELEASE HIS TAX RE
CORDS...AND GOT AWAY WITH IT...
I AW, DID THEY FEEL I
TRI66ERED?
ONCE IN OFFICE, HE TRASHED EX
ISTING ALLIANCES AND QUICKLY
USHERED IN A NEW ERA OF
GLOBAL INSTABILITY.
HEH heh: what a
I BUNCH OF CUCKS!
IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE A TER
RORIST INCIDENT GAVE HIM THE
EXCUSE TO SUSPEND THE CONSTI
TUTION AND DECLARE MARTIAL LAW.
USING HIS EXPANDED AUTHORITY,
TRUMP SOON ELIMINATED ALL
REMAINING ENVIRONMENTAL AND
BUSINESS REGULATIONS, AND LAUNCHED
THE BUREAU OF INTERNMENT AND
RE-EDUCATION.
RAIN!
|THEY WERE SIMPLY
{DELICIOUS!
AND WHEN JUSTIN TRUDEAU STARTED
TROLLING HIM ON TWITTER, TRUMP
RESPONDED WITH A NUCLEAR FIRST
STRIKE ON CANADA.
i totally lol'd at all the
SPACE THAT DAYi
it WAS UTTERLY
HILARIOUS.*
ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER...AND
NOW, OF COURSE, WE STRUGGLE
TO SURVIVE IN A HELLISH WASTE
LAND IN WHICH THE LIVING ENVY
THE DEAD AND CYBORG BILLIONAIRES
HUNT US ALL For SPORT...
BUT HEY—AS LONG AS IT PISSES
OFF THE LIBERALS—
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