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Trump Pressures Bondi to Pursue Rivals After Ousting Virginia U.S. Attorney

Legal experts caution the campaign risks politicized prosecutions that may not survive in court.

Lindsey Halligan, Karoline Leavitt, Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump attend the Men's Singles Final on Day 15 of the 2025 US Open Tennis Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 07, 2025 in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City.

Overview

  • Trump publicly urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to bring charges against Letitia James, James Comey and Adam Schiff, declaring on Truth Social that “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW.”
  • Erik Siebert left his post as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after declining to indict James; Trump claimed he fired him and labeled him a “Woke RINO.”
  • Bondi named Mary “Maggie” Cleary as acting U.S. attorney in the EDVA, while Trump said he plans to nominate Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide and former personal lawyer with no prosecutorial experience, to lead the office.
  • Federal law-enforcement sources cited by multiple outlets say prosecutors found insufficient evidence to charge James over alleged mortgage fraud and saw limits in related probes of Comey.
  • Scholars and former prosecutors say Trump’s public demands could fuel selective-prosecution challenges and erode DOJ independence, even as the White House frames the effort as accountability.