Donald Trump: Curtain up for his revenge lawyer

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Donald Trump had the best reasons to be in a good mood on Thursday. At a press conference he gave details of the first phase of the Gaza deal. “That’s e“Something that people said would never happen,” the US President praised himself. On Thursday evening (local time) he received a gift from his Ministry of Justice, which announced the lawsuit against Letitia James. The accusation: Bank fraud and false information to a credit institution.

It was the New York Attorney General who made one last year civil fraud proceedings against Trump and his real estate company has filed. Trump was fined over $454 million in May 2024. A Court of Appeals But described the fine as “excessive” and overturned the verdict in August. James announced that he would appeal.

It is another indication of how the US President is abusing his power and the Justice Department is following Trump’s will. In mid-September, Trump publicly called on the Justice Department to take action against his opponents. The focus is on one woman in particular: Lindsey Halligan. The 36-year-old lawyer was formerly Trump’s lawyer and worked in the White House until the end of September. Until Trump himself appointed her prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Her predecessor resigned from office at the end of September under pressure from the White House because, according to media reports, he did not find enough evidence to indict James and the ex-FBI-Boss James Comey saw. Just five days after her appointment, Halligan filed an indictment against Comey, followed less than two weeks later by another against James.

Trump had previously lobbied Attorney General Pam Bondi to install Halligan in office. “She is an intelligent and very loyal lawyer,” Trump posted on his own social media site Truth Social. It is at least doubtful whether Halligan is even suitable as a prosecutor. This is what the “New York Times” recently said that the lawyer lacked any experience in law enforcement or in overseeing complex national security cases. In her ten-year career, she had only represented a few cases at the federal level – and only as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Otherwise, she had only represented insurance cases in Florida, the “New York Times” reported after an evaluation of her cases.

The US President, however, doesn’t care at all about Halligan’s qualifications – Trump is only interested in revenge and the Justice Department is his most important tool. And in Halligan he has found a lawyer who is not loyal to the United States, but to its president.

What the lawsuits against Comey and James have in common: They stand on very thin ice. The Washington Post reported on Thursday (local time) that Halligan himself presented the charges against James to a jury. Accordingly, Halligan’s office could not find a lawyer who was willing to take on this assignment. The newspaper relies on anonymous sources from the Ministry of Justice. Initial reactions from legal experts estimated that the lawsuit’s chances of success were low. The Comey case is similar. At the first court hearing, a North Carolina attorney sat next to Halligan. Her Virginia district attorneys had refused to argue the case because it was too weak, the New York Times reported.

But the impact of Halligan’s appointment is becoming increasingly clear. Trump wants to prosecute his political enemies in the country – as shaky as the case is. The US President makes no secret of who might be next. At the end of September, Trump called for Adam Schiff to be impeached. It would be a further escalation in Trump’s agenda: Schiff sits for the Democrats in the US Senate.

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