The trumped up criminal indictment of former FBI Director Jim Comey, as expressly ordered by the president, is a legal nullity and hopefully will be dispatched by a federal judge. But the damage is done, as Donald Trump has thoroughly corrupted the Department of Justice.

It is so bad that Trump’s own pick to be the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, honorably and correctly refused to seek grand jury charges against Comey for ostensibly making false statements to Congress and obstructing justice. Trump was livid and ordered Siebert out. Siebert says he resigned. Trump claims he was fired.

But gone was Siebert and replaced by the unfit and unqualified Lindsey Halligan. She presented a case against Comey to a grand jury — personally, as it turned out, because

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