The revenge tour has come off the rails.

Donald Trump had long promised retribution against his political enemies, but - to coin a phrase used around the White House - he's f****ed around and found out that it doesn't fly so easily through the courts .

His mistake was in choosing a pilot unable to fly the plane.

Lindsey Halligan is the lawyer who took the job of Trump-enforcer when others, better qualified, turned it down.

The prosecution of Trump's adversaries would have been the job of Erik Siebert, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, but he gave it a body swerve.

He had declined to prosecute the case against Letitia James, the New York attorney-general who successfully prosecuted the Trump organisation for business fraud.

Siebert concluded there were not suffic

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