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Ultimately, it doesnt really matter what the indictment says, because Halligan was going to indict Comey no matter what. Thats literally why shes in the job to bring the sort of sham charges that the previous US attorney, Eric Siebert, would not.
Siebert told senior DOJ officials there was not enough evidence to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud and that he had concerns about any case against Comey. Siebert resigned, though Trump insists he was fired. But the specifics dont really doesnt matter. In the end, Siebert was out because he wouldnt do precisely what Halligan would do.
Halligan isnt just malleable and unethical. She also has no idea what shes doing, having never prosecuted a single case. She was an insurance lawyer before Trump plucked her out of obscurity in Florida to be one of his defense lawyers in the classified documents case. Halligan also appears to still work for the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Associate Staff Attorney, where she has been in charge of making sure that the Smithsonian and other museums dont have anything that bums white supremacists out, like mentions of slavery.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/comey-indictment-halligan-trump

appmanga
(1,275 posts)...is, yes, Trump can pardon them, but he can't keep them from being disbarred. The can ask Sydney Powell, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and Ken Chesboro all about that, and yet they still find people (who are incompetent, so they shouldn't be lawyers in the first place) who'll violate the ethics of the profession.
Emile
(37,789 posts)kentuck
(114,710 posts)...with any subject.
Warpy
(113,948 posts)for his last minute "we have new evidence" that threw the 2016 election to Butthole, that's not what this is really about..
Comey is as dirty as they come, but this whole thing looks like revenge to me.