Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan is reeling after a judge needled her over the messy indictment of James Comey.

The beauty queen-turned-prosecutor shot back after federal judge Michael Nachmanoff, a Biden appointee, suggested that she acted as a “puppet” for President Donald Trump in the case brought against the former FBI director.

“Personal attacks, like Judge Nachmanoff referring to me as a ‘puppet,’ don’t change the facts or the law,” Halligan told the New York Post on Wednesday.

During a testy hearing in Virginia, Comey’s attorney Michael Dreeben accused Halligan of acting on Trump’s command—a charge that the judge appeared to agree with, according to an account by The New York Times.

“The president of the United States has caused the executive branch to prosecute a perceive

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