Overview

• Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were indicted shortly after President Trump publicly pressed Pam Bondi on Truth Social to pursue named opponents.
• Lindsey Halligan, a Trump-linked lawyer newly installed as acting U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia after Erik Siebert resigned, signed both indictments without other prosecutors.
• Career DOJ attorneys had argued the evidence did not support charges, declined to attach their names to the filings, and several have since left the EDVA office, including Michael Ben’Ary.
• Halligan’s filings drew scrutiny for basic errors and inconsistencies, including contradictory documents in the Comey case and listing a non-existent “Brooklyn, NJ” in the James paperwork.
• News outlets report growing questions about who is directing DOJ decisions, with MSNBC citing a Wall Street Journal account that the president, not the attorney general, is calling the shots.