The White House on Wednesday defended the firing of two Democrat commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, saying President Donald Trump was well within his legal right to do so.

On Tuesday, Trump dismissed the agency’s two Democrats, Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. Bedoya released a statement on X saying, “I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. The president just illegally fired me. This is corruption plain and simple.”

Bedoya added that his firing was Trump’s attempt to remake the FTC into “a lapdog for his golfing buddies” and urged his followers to “fight back.”

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