Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan got a grand jury to indict former FBI Director James Comey on two counts.
But Halligan showed her inexperience Thursday as the jurors rejected a third charge, and she
submitted the wrong documents to the judge.
It was Halligan’s fourth day on the job. She was formerly Trump’s personal lawyer, and recently led the president’s efforts to de-emphasize slavery at the Smithsonian museums.
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The newcomer went it alone Thursday, as MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian reports that
Halligan “presented the Comey indictment all by herself to the grand jury,” a sign that she “may have a problem finding a prosecutor in office to work on the case.” The indictment was also signed only by Halligan, according to The New York Times, while “typically such filings are also endorsed by career prosecutors who have gathered the evidence in the case.”
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After the jury rejected that charge, prosecutors presented U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala with an indictment with just the two others. But, as The Washington Post reports,
Halligan accidentally “gave the judge both indictments Thursday evening, prompting confusion.”
“This has never happened before. I’ve been handed two documents ... with a discrepancy,” Vaala said.
“I’m a little confused why I was handed two things ... that were inconsistent.”
Trump-installed DOJ attorney Lindsey Halligan is having a tough time with the indictment from the very start.
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Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks.
At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.
President Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July and hit a fever pitch over the last week, culminating in the indictment of one of his foremost enemies.
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