- Trump has fired the acting attorney general who ordered Justice Dept. not to defend president’s travel ban https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/acting-attorney-general-an-obama-administration-holdover-wont-defend-trump-immigration-order/2017/01/30/a9846f02-e727-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.29a15cefd363 5 comments politics