Trump Fires Attorney General after Copy of Constitution Is Found on Her Computer
By Andy Borowitz,
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald
Trump fired the acting Attorney General, Sally Q. Yates, after learning
that she had downloaded a copy of the United States Constitution to
her computer, Trump told reporters on Monday night.
According
to the Trump Administration’s code of ethics, established by Steve
Bannon, a counselor to the President, “possessing, reading, or referring
to the United States Constitution” is a violation that is punishable by
termination.
Suspecting that Yates
was in breach of that rule, Bannon seized Yates’s computer at the
Justice Department and discovered that she had secretly downloaded a
complete copy of the 1789 document.
“Sally
Yates was hatching a covert plot to require my actions to be in
accordance with the Constitution,” Trump said. “We caught her
red-handed.”
Trump said he hoped
Yates’s firing would send Justice Department staffers the message that
“if you are caught flagrantly obeying the Constitution, you will be out
of here.”
“The American people
deserve an Attorney General who will come to work every day ready to
flout the Constitution, and in Jeff Sessions, they will have one,” he
said.
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