Heather Cox Richardson 10/9/25 QUESTION OF WHETHER LINDSEY HALLIGAN IS QUALIFIED TO TRY COMEY Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J. Trump placed her at the position of U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to do: deliver an indictment of New York attorney general Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud. The previous U.S. attorney there, Erik Seibert, refused to take either the James case or a case against former FBI director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress to a grand jury for an indictment, believing there was not enough evidence to convict. resigned in the face of Trump's fury at his decision, and Trump replaced him with Halligan, a former aide and Trump's personal lawyer. It is not clear that Halligan holds her position legally, but she has now delivered the indictments Trump demanded. Trump bears a grudge against Comey for his pursuit of an investigation into the relationship between members of Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian operatives—a relationship two subsequent investigations proved. He bears a grudge against James for successfully suing the Trump Organization for fraud.
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