WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday. In a social media post just after he departed the White House for an event at Mount Vernon, Trump wrote he was nominating Halligan as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, writing that she "will be Fair, Smart, and will provide, desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!"
The replacement of Siebert as U.S. attorney for the prestigious Eastern District of Virginia office comes amid a push by Trump administration officials to indict James, a perceived adversary of the president who has successfully sued him for fraud. President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday that he wanted Siebert "out" and multiple people familiar with the matter later told the AP that Siebert had informed his colleagues of his plan to resign from the position.
The day before, ABC News reported that Trump officials had informed Siebert of the president's intention to fire him. The president was reportedly leaning on Siebert to bring charges against James after the administration accused her of falsely claiming her house in Virginia as her primary residence despite being legally required to live in New York as the state's attorney general.
Ed Martin expected to be the U.S. Attorney in D.C. in this administration. Unfortunately, even the Republican-controlled Senate found the January 6 cheerleader too irredeemably stupid to trust with safety scissors, let alone one of the most important prosecutorial offices in the country. While Trump made up new rules to keep nominees like Alina Habba in office, that wasn't political capital the president was willing to spend on Martin.
Ed Martin, the director of the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group, urged New York Attorney General Letitia James to resign as an act of good faith amid a mortgage fraud investigation.
A famine is unfolding in Gaza before the eyes of the world, and a coalition of multiracial, multiethnic, and multifaith elected officials is calling for immediate action to address this humanitarian catastrophe.
"Our offices have been fighting back to cut through the chaos and defend the rule of law and provide support for the vital services and supports our communities rely on."
The mortgage and insurance fees that the Attorney General paid may have been less due to the misrepresentation of her Brooklyn property's unit count, claiming it was four instead of five.