MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Flays Trump Pick Halligan Over Comey Performance: ‘Courtroom Clowns’

Tommy Christopher Oct 9th, 2025, 12:17 pm

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell went off on Trump-picked prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over her first day in court since the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey .

After a scuttled plan to “perp-walk” Comey , the embattled ex-FBI chief surrendered voluntarily to plead “not guilty” in court on Wednesday, where Halligan and a team of out-of-state prosecutors faced off against Comey and defense attorney Patrick Fitzgerald .

On Wednesday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word , O’Donnell flayed Halligan and her team in a blistering commentary on their first day in court, calling them “courtroom clowns”:

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