Donald Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan was given a losing hand when she was assigned to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey — and things have gone from bad to worse for her, according to legal analyst.
Halligan, a civil attorney with no prosecutorial experience, was chosen by Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi to push the Comey case forward after her predecessor, now ex-U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert of the Virginia’s Eastern District, refused to prosecute.
Having obtained indictment, Halligan is now facing questions about what she told the grand jury — and has been given clear indication that the case will be tossed by Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick.
Addressing Halligan’s missteps, MS NOW analyst Lisa Rubin claimed the special prosecutor, who has also served as Trump’s personal attorney, seems to be facing insurmountable odds that she will be able to see the case end successfully for the administration.
Speaking with “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough, who claimed Halligan walked into a bad situation because “literally everybody in the [U.S. attorney] office says these are bulls—t charges,” Rubin agreed before pointing out some alarming obstacles the inexperienced prosecutor is facing following a rebuke from the judge on Monday.
“There are three categories of massive problems that this judge identifies in his decision,” Rubin reported. “And one of them is, according to this judge, based on the recordings of the grand jury proceedings. Lindsey Halligan, not once but twice made fundamental misstatements about the law, right? One with respect to a defendant’s right to stay silent. And the second, with respect to what kind of evidence the government might ultimately be able to marshal were they able to take this case to trial.”
Adding, “A misstatement of law before a grand jury would obviously be grounds for throwing the charges out immediately, right?” the legal analyst later stated, “There are 11 different ways in which Jim Comey’s statutory or constitutional rights may have been infringed by the conduct of the FBI and the Department of Justice, both in the investigation of this case and in its presentation to a grand jury.”
Laughing, she continued, “I really have never seen, and I say this, I mean, it’s like every three days, Joe, I say this. I’ve really never seen anything. — I’m running out of hyperbole.”
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