Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots
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Trump officials have already ousted dozens of senior Justice Department prosecutors who ran afoul of him in Washington and New York, but a Virginia district earned Trump’s particular ire last month, after the U.S. attorney he had appointed there didn’t find probable cause to prosecute Comey.
Trump ignored the advice of aides, Justice Department officials, and even Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, who had urged him to keep on the prosecutor, Erik Siebert, according to people familiar with the discussions. After Siebert resigned under pressure, Trump installed in the post a former personal lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, who had never prosecuted a criminal case. A spokesman for Youngkin said the governor “fully respects the President’s authority to choose the best U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s Justice Department appointees have pressed for action in investigations of a range of other perceived enemies, viewing it as an appropriate response to the years of criminal cases Trump faced, some of which were based on novel legal theories.
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Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. On Wednesday, Trump said the Democratic leaders of Chicago and Illinois, too, should be imprisoned.
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He finally found his Roy Cohn
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If Halligan is disqualified, then the statute of limitations will have run on the bogus charges against Comey
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