President Donald Trump just appointed one of his former personal attorneys to lead a desperate last-ditch legal charge against two of his longest-detested enemies.
Lindsey Halligan, 35, assumed her new role as interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday, where she’ll be taking over the office’s investigations into former FBI chief James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
A former insurance lawyer, Halligan has zero prosecutorial experience. She has, however, twice competed in the Miss Colorado USA pageant and has represented Trump since 2022, most notably in a lawsuit against CNN for allegedly comparing the president to Adolf Hitler, as well as in his defense against federal charges of concealing classified documents.
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