Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump’s hatchet person in the Eastern District of Virginia, has come up with a genius plan to deal with James Comey’s upcoming motion challenging her appointment: filing a motion that Comey’s lead attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, has a conflict of interest and should be disqualified.
LOL. LMAO, even.
Halligan’s theory is that Comey used Fitzgerald to improperly disclose classified information after Trump fired him in 2017. To bolster this, the motion relies on a 2019 report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, which concludes that Comey “failed to live up to this responsibility” to “protect sensitive law enforcement information.”
But one little problem with this genius plan is that the same report also said that it “found no evid