The Rupert Murdoch–owned Wall Street Journal has ridiculed Donald Trump and his loyalists’ failed attempt to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The paper’s editorial board blasted Trump after a judge dismissed the cases against two of the president’s top adversaries because the Trump-picked prosecutor who filed the charges, Lindsey Halligan, was not lawfully appointed to the role of interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

“President Trump’s lawfare revenge tour has gone bust,” the board said. “In its rush for retribution, the Trump Administration cut corners.”

Halligan is a 36-year-old former Miss Colorado beauty pageant contestant with no experience in criminal law. She was chosen by Trump to be the Eastern Distric

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