Sally Yates endorses Biden [View all]

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired by President Trump, endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden's White House bid on Thursday.

Yates cited Biden’s “vast experience” and said she had witnessed him “grapple with some of the country’s greatest challenges” in the Obama administration.

“I trust him to always put the country’s interests before his own; to tell us the truth; to appeal to our best, not our worst, instincts; to unite rather than divide us; and to always treat the presidency as a privilege rather than an entitlement,” she added.

The former deputy attorney general noted that she is “not a political person,” but “our country needs Joe Biden.”

“But there is too much at stake now for any of us to sit on the sidelines,” she said. “This is indeed a battle for the soul of America — who we are, or at least who we have always aspired to be.”

“While our country can survive four years of our current president, at the end of eight years, I fear that we will not recognize the nation that we have become,” she added.

Trump fired Yates in 2017 after she refused to defend his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries. Since then, she has been an outspoken critic of the president.



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