{"id":417326,"date":"2025-12-01T14:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417326\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:07:15","slug":"trumps-beauty-queen-prosecutor-frozen-out-after-humiliating-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417326\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Beauty Queen Prosecutor Frozen Out After Humiliating Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor handpicked by Donald Trump to indict two of the president\u2019s political enemies, has been left out of discussions about whether she can still be considered employed in a top U.S. attorney\u2019s office, according to a report.<\/p>\n

Halligan, a former Miss Colorado beauty pageant contestant<\/a> with no prior experience in criminal law, was ruled by a judge to be unlawfully serving as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, therefore voiding the charges<\/a> she brought against former FBI Director James Comey and New York state Attorney General Letitia James.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice is still determining how it can pursue the cases against Comey<\/a> and James as part of Trump\u2019s revenge tour, with Halligan\u2019s role as a top federal prosecutor in limbo following the decision from U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie. A source told CNN<\/a> that Halligan is not involved in internal DOJ discussions about whether the department will continue the cases without her, and it is not even clear whether she will report to her office in Alexandria on Monday.<\/p>\n

A source added that Attorney General Pam Bondi spoke with Halligan after Currie, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, ruled that Trump\u2019s former personal attorney was serving unlawfully as a federal prosecutor but offered no clarity on whether she still has a job.<\/p>\n

\"LindseyLindsey Halligan was Donald Trump\u2019s personal attorney on civil cases and had no prosecutorial experience before she was named Virginia\u2019s top federal prosecutor. XNY\/Star Max\/GC Images <\/p>\n

The confusion over Halligan\u2019s status was part of a CNN report detailing the chaotic and gaffe-filled 63-day tenure at the Virginia office. Halligan was tapped by Trump<\/a> and named interim U.S. attorney after her predecessor, Erik Siebert, resigned after refusing to bow to pressure to charge Comey and James with disputed allegations of lying to Congress and fraud, respectively.<\/p>\n

Comey was charged by Halligan\u2019s office just days after Trump publicly complained to Bondi on Truth Social in September that \u201cnothing is being done\u201d about prosecuting his enemies, in a post that was reportedly supposed to be a direct message.<\/a><\/p>\n

Last month, the inexperienced Halligan was accused of possible prosecutorial misconduct after it emerged that a grand jury did not see<\/a> the full and final indictment it was supposed to approve before the foreperson signed the charging document against Comey.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentDonald Trump told Pam Bondi she couldn\u2019t \u201cdelay any longer\u201d in bringing charges against James Comey and Letitia James. Alex Wong\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

The DOJ is considering appealing the ruling that declared Halligan\u2019s appointment unlawful and may still try to refile charges against Comey and James.<\/p>\n

An official close to DOJ headquarters denied to CNN that Halligan is being excluded from discussions about whether she is still considered a federal prosecutor and said the department will issue a memo stating that Halligan was not removed as a result of Currie\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

An internal email from Justice Department officials, seen by CNN, instructed the U.S. attorney\u2019s office to refer to Halligan with the twice-misspelled title of \u201cUnites States Attorny,\u201d as well as \u201cspecial \u201dU.S. Attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As of early Monday morning, Halligan is still listed<\/a> as the lead attorney in the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has contacted the DOJ and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor handpicked by Donald Trump to indict two of the president\u2019s political enemies, has been…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[9611,77,49023,7042,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-417326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-department-of-justice","10":"tag-donald-j-trump","11":"tag-james-comey","12":"tag-maga","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115644704500225784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}