Donald Trump’s new prosecutorial bulldog is showing mounting signs of impatience as she moves at breakneck speed against the president’s political enemies.
Lindsey Halligan, whom Trump last month appointed as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, made the decision to file charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James this week without letting either Attorney General Pam Bondi or Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche know ahead of time.
“[She] just wanted to get it done,” a source with knowledge of the case told the Wall Street Journal Saturday.
The newspaper adds Halligan had originally wanted to indict James in Norfolk, Virginia, where some of her colleagues believed she stood a better chance of getting a conservative jury at trial.
Her decision to file in Al