Washington – President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would nominate the senior White House assistant Lindsey Halligan to serve as a senior federal prosecutor of the Virginia office who was in the turmoil when its American lawyer was removed on Friday.
In a post on social media after leaving the White House to attend an event on Mount Vernon, Trump wrote that he was nominating Halligan as an American lawyer in the eastern province of Virginia, and she wrote that it was “fair, smart, and it will provide it, urgently to justice for everyone!”
This announcement came when Trump pressed the public prosecutor Bam Bondi to move forward in following up issues against some of his political opponents, which is part of a commitment to revenge that was the subject of his return to the White House.
The nomination will put one of the legal defenders of the president in charge of an office in turmoil due to the political pressure by administration officials to the criminal charge of the New York Prosecutor Littia James, Trump’s enemy for a long time, in achieving fraud in the mortgage.
Lindsey Halligan on August 20, 2025 (left); Letitia James in the picture on February 16, 2024 (right).
Eric Separte, who was the office’s largest prosecutor, resigned amid a batch of Trump administration officials to connect charges in the investigation, which stems from allegations of contradictions between paper work on James’s house in Brooklyn and Virginia’s house.
The Ministry of Justice spent months in the investigation, and there was no evidence that the prosecutors were able to reveal any degree of evidence necessary to ensure an accusation. James’s lawyers have strongly denied any allegations and described the investigation as a work for political revenge.
Halligan has been part of Trump’s legal orbit over the past few years, including work as one of his lawyers in the first days of the FBI investigation into the retention of Trump for the classified documents in his property Mar Lago in Florida. It was recently recruited at the White House effort to remove what the administration claims is “inappropriate ideology” from Smithsonian Properties.
Earlier on Saturday, Trump posted on social media what appeared to be a fairly open speech to Bondi, saying that he “reviewed more than 30 data and posts” described as criticizing his administration due to the lack of procedures for investigations, including those in James’s transactions. Trump, former FBI’s message, James Komei, said Trump’s long -standing thwarted during his first term, amid an intervention in elections in Russia.
The FBI admitted this summer that he was investigating Kumi, who was interviewed by the Secret Service after a Instagram post, Republicans insisted that violence against Trump. Kumi said it does not mean that the post represents a threat and removed it as soon as I realize how it was interpreted.
He was asked when the White House left if he was criticizing Bondi, Trump said he just wanted to work.
“We have to act quickly – in one way or another,” Trump said. “They are guilty, and they are not guilty – we have to act quickly. If they are not guilty, there is nothing wrong with that. If they are guilty or if they should be charged, they must be charged. We must do that now.”
Upon announcing Halligan’s nomination shortly after social media, Trump said Bondi “is doing a great job.”
Mary Maggie Clairi, in an email to the employees, said that the choice of Halligan came a few hours after the last governor’s lawyer, in an email to the employees, who was manufactured in the United States’ lawyer for the Eastern Region in Virginia, according to a copy seen by the Associated Press.
“While this date is unexpected, I am modest to join your ranks.”
While Separte said in an e -mail to colleagues on Friday evening that he had resigned, Trump said in a post on social media: “He did not resign, I launched it!” Trump indicated that he was supported by the state’s Democratic Senate members, Mark Warner and Tim Kane, adding: “Next time, let him go as a democratic, not Republican.”
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The Associated Press Erik Taker writer contributed to this report.
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