President Donald Trump said he plans to nominate Lindsey Halligan — a White House aide spearheading the ideological review of the Smithsonian Institution — to be U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia, replacing a prosecutor who was forced out for not bringing fraud charges against New York’s attorney general.
Trump announced the move in a Truth Social post Saturday that suggested he’s in disagreement with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the choice. Earlier in the day, Bondi had installed conservative lawyer Maggie Cleary as acting U.S. attorney in the crucial office in the Washington suburbs.
The announcement came as part of an unusual series of social media posts from Trump Saturday night in which he publicly scolded Bondi for not prosecuting his public enemies.
“Nothing is being done,”